The conflict in Northern Ireland, better known as ”The Trouble” were a conflickt between Catholics and Protestants, it was about whether or not Northern Ireland should be a part of the Republic Ireland or Great- Britain.
The conflict started when Great Britain in 1969 sent soldiers into Northern Ireland, but it really started in 1169. In 1169 the English King Henrik 2. Occupied Ireland, because he wanted to help the pope to making the Irish people Christen. Ireland were attack many times by English soldiers through the 15th and 16th century, jurying the time of Henrik 8., Elizabeth 1. And Oliver Cromwell. The English men confiscated the Irish fields and sold it to the Scottish people, the idea was that Ireland should be inhabited by English farmers and landowners. The English men considered the Irish people as lower class human being and even some of them were sold as slaves to the Vest India. The Irish people were excluded from political and economic influence because lots of new laws called “The penal laws”. At that time the Irish catholic just owned 14 % of Ireland, which means that England and the protestant almost took over Ireland. He
In 1801 became Ireland a part of Great Britain. There were some different secret groups on both sides of the conflict and The protestants maked : Orange _________, Oakboys, Hearst and Steel, and the groups were fighting agianst the catholics and supressing of the Irish farmers. The catholics made the grupes : Whrite Boys and Ribbonmen they were fighting against the police and the courts. The Catholics secret groups made violence and terror to defend themselves from the protestant. But in 1912 Ireland became republic as we know it today, and it was a big victory for the catholic in Ireland.
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