Does anyone know, how the British caused strife betwwen the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland?

Question

Does anyone know how the Brithish caused the strife in Northern Ireland against the Protestants and Catholics? After rieland was partitioned that is.

Answer 1

The strife was entirely the responsibility of the Irish. It is an excellent example of the divisive nature of religion. The Protestants and Catholics were brought up as separate societies with different traditions and separate education from an early age ( what we now call faith schools). They were taught to distrust each other and to see each other as a threat to their own beliefs.
This attitude was deeply embedded in society with the Protestants having the upper hand, the best jobs and making up most of the police force and administration.
When the civil rights movement started in 1968 to attempt to get equality for the Catholics, copying the American civil rights movement for blacks, the Protestants reacted with violence and the British Prime Minister sent troops on to the streets of Northern Ireland to protect the Catholics who were being burnt out of their homes.
The IRA also began their activities to protect the Catholics and came into conflict with the troops who they considered to be an occupying force.
The Protestants then reacted with their own paramilitary and terrorist forces and so the situation escalated into a long term reign of terror from both sides.
This only really came to an end after 9/11 when the Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Centre in New York and the americans who had been the main funders and supporters of the IRA withdrew their support as they got a taste of their own medicine and decided that maybe terrorism was not such a good idea after all.

Answer 2

The method of partitioning left six of the nine counties of Ulster (those with majority Protestant populations) part of the UK. This is politically understandable, since radical Protestant groups had been threatening open rebellion there over the threat of limited home-rule, only cut off by the declaration of war in 1914.

To the south, a compromise that left a portion of the island in British hands led to vicious civil war between those who would not accept a partial solution and the government of the Irish Free State, which saw it as the only practical result.

It seems to me that for the past 85 years religion has only served in the North as a symbol (albeit an important one) for a political viewpoint that clings to its loyalties to the UK against one that wants a reunification of the island.

My own opinion counts for nothing, and emotions have become engrained, but does anyone really suppose that, under the current state of affairs in Eire, unification would result in the suppression of the rights of Protestants in the North? Why further prolong a 16th-century struggle?

I suppose I might as well ask that of Palestinians and Israelis engaged in one from the 20th.

Answer 3

There are nine counties in Ulster. Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan had the majority of Catholics and so were left out of the United Kingdom. Of the six counties left Tyrone and Fermanagh were half and half Catholic and Protestant and the other four had a Protestant majority. Unionist leaders thought that four counties would be too small to survive economically so Fermanagh and Tyrone were included in Northern Ireland.
This is one of the main reasons for the tensions in the North. If Fermanagh and Tyrone had been left out then there would have been a very big Protestant majority.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The British DIDN'T. A Marxist TERRORIST group were the ones you should be accusing.