What are the roots of the animosity between the English and Irish?

Question

I'm not trying to start trouble. I just want to know. I know there will be many different points of view and I'd like to hear some of them.

Answer 1

Consolidation. England treated Ireland as second-class, giving their land away to English nobles and really just ignoring the plight of the Irish people because of religious differences, basically. Listen to some U2, especially Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Answer 2

Following the Roman withdrawal from Britain, around 400
AD, the Celtic population which had been settled in the
British Isles for several centuries was mostly driven out of
England by the Anglo-Saxons. However, in Scotland, Wales and
Ireland the Celtic Race survived. Around this time Ireland was
converted to Christianity and became the "Land of Saints and
Scholars" in a Western cope swept by barbarism, as the Dark
Ages descended on the remnants of the Roman Empire. (9: 196)
In 1171, a century after the Norman conquest of England
in 1066, Norman barons invaded and settled parts of southern
and eastern Ireland. They rapidly blended with the native
Irish chiefs, losing their allegiance to the King in England,
and thus Ireland remained a federation of quarreling
earldoms.(9: 319-330) For a while the country co-existed well
enough with England, but increasing influence from London
caused disaffection. In the 1530s, under Henry VIII, England
broke with the Church of Rome and Catholic Ireland was then
seen as a threat to English security.

Answer 3

loyalists vs. separatists people mistakenly call it Catholics vs. Protestants Most of the Irish were Catholic and a majority of the English were protestant. Most of the Irish were Catholic and a majority of the English were protestant.Basically English lords wanted to take control of all of the land and the church resisted.

Answer 4

The English are sane and the Irish are crazy drunks.

Answer 5

"Professor Lecky, a Protestant of British blood and ardent British sympathy, says in his History of Ireland in the 18th Century that the object of the Penal Laws was threefold:

1. To deprive the Catholics of all civil life
2. To reduce them to a condition of most extreme and brutal ignorance

3. To dissociate them from the soil He might, with absolute justice, substituted Irish for Catholics-and added, (4) to expirate (cause to expire) the Race.

The Irish Catholic was forbidden the exercise of his religion.
He was forbidden to receive education,
He was forbidden to enter a profession.
He was forbidden to hold public office.
He was forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
He was forbidden to live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof.
He was forbidden to own a horse of greater value than five pounds.
He was forbidden to purchase land.
He was forbidden to lease land.
He was forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan.
He was forbidden to vote.
He was forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
He was forbidden to hold a life annuity.
He was forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
He was forbidden to receive a gift of land from a Protestant.
He was forbidden to inherit land from a Protestant.
He was forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
He was forbidden to rent any land that was worth more than thirty shillings a year.
He was forbidden to reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent.
He could not be guardian to a child.
He could not, when dying, leave his infant children under Catholic guardianship.
He could not attend Catholic worship.
He was compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
He could not himself educate his child.
He could not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
He could not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his child.
He could not send his child abroad to receive education.

Answer 6

Like most wars, it was about land. You have it, I want it, now clear off.

Answer 7

I think religion