Northern Ireland

At this point, “the IRA became the stronghold of intransigent opposition to Ireland’s dominion status and the separation of Northern Ireland.” In 1969, the IRA underwent the first of several splits. As violence between factions increased in Northern Ireland, Britain was obligated to employ the use of military regulars in an attempt to keep the peace. Though the troops were ostensibly deployed to prevent violence in general, including the…

when the British Empire had conquered Ireland and Scotland. This forced the inhabitants of both countries to give up their customs and traditions to conform to the British Monarchy for almost 1000 years. Both countries continuously fought the Kingdom of England between the early 14th to the 18th century, to liberate their beloved homeland from British reign and regain their independence and identity. A historical grudge still resonates today in Northern Ireland. Political agenda is an important…

As someone who is primarily Scotch Irish, I speak for myself and many other Americans in believing that the First Scottish War of Independence had a large impact in the lives of our ancestors. At the finale of this war was the Battle of Bannockburn, an extraordinary battle and victory for the underdog in numbers, Scotland, a country protecting its land from the massive power that was England. The historical significance of the battle is what keeps it alive to this day in Scotland. This past…

the British well know. They made its existence known to the world as a terrorist organization in the 1960s as the Clandestine “armed wing” of the Sinn Fein movement. They were devoted to bringing about a unified Ireland and Northern Ireland, and to remove any British forces from Ireland. To do this, the group several hundred strong in members and another several hundred strong in supporters and sympathizers aimed their hostility at high-ranking…

On the one hand, IRA control over crime and violence could gain support from the community, as a means to an end, as such a high volume of crimes committed in a majority Catholic area would have a negative impact on the Catholic community across Ireland as a whole, and by using extreme measures they could act as a deterrence. However, on the other hand it could have acted to almost undermine the movement itself, as an organisation which couldn’t control its members and supporters, and reverted…

In this essay I will argue that religion is not inherently violent, it is in the nature of the people to be violent. I will do this by showing, through various case studies such as the Caribbean and de la Casas and the troubles in Northern Ireland. I will also use the Holocaust as a case because even though it may not have been religiously motivated, it is still grounded in the context of religion. These will help to further my view that it is the people who are violent because I will show that…

Nobel prizes seventy years apart. Like Yeats, Heaney was recognized globally, as likely to lecture at Harvard as to read at Dublin City University. British colonization ravaged both Yeats’s and Heaney’s Ireland. Both poets acknowledge the violence either in the Irish Civil War or in the Troubles, Northern Ireland’s nationalist guerrilla war fought in the…

British policies and involvement related to Irish Independence. The IRA of the early 1900s “fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole of Ireland” (Gregory, 2010), this challenge resulted in an agreement granting Irish Independence in 1921. Independence was agreed upon with a caveat that the 6 northern counties be retained by the British. This agreement resulted in uneasy peace through 1969 when IRA leadership in Belfast split with their Dublin counterparts and…

most people think of Ireland, they picture rolling hills, green valleys, shamrocks, leprechauns and rainbows with the pot of gold at the end. The reality is that Ireland has been torn by religion, terrorism, civil wars and British rule. Irish conflict with the English dates from the twelfth century and the Norman invasion to the division of land we see in the Northern and Southern parts of Ireland based on religious differences and years of British rule. The people of Ireland wanted a change;…

gave the Irish government an advisory role in the affairs of Northern Ireland but besides that had no real power to it. Though it was passed it was essentially a failure in its primary goal; to foster peace and reconciliation between the two parties. The Sinn Fein party, the “political wing” of the IRA was vehemently opposed to the agreement. Unfortunately, the treaty also alienated the unionist. Only two parties in Northern Ireland actually supported the treaty. This ordeal led to the IRA…