can someone please explain to me what the norhtern ireland and england conflict was?

Question

I have a paper due next week, and i dont get it AT ALL. a little bit of background info. would definalty help me start. thanks!

Answer 1

Basically, England was the owner of Ireland.

There is a long history of trouble between the two.

There's the Easter Day in Dublin 1916, in which battle ships were sent up the Liffey by the British and attacked the Dublin streets. Ireland was never too happy about that one.

Ireland wants North Ireland to be part of Ireland. It's its own country, and not all that happy of one either.

Belfast is the big spor of trouble. There's the Protestants and the Catholics, the English and the Irish.

They fight eash other. In fact, there's a gigantic concrete wall separating their neighborhoods. Catholics can't work for Protestants and the other way around. They have to be kept apart.

The Hotel Europa in Belfast is the most bombed Hotel due to the IRA and other terrorists bombing it to get their point across.

Then, people will go on hunger strikes to get their points across.

Basically, Ireland wants it to be Ireland, Britain wants it to be Britain and they fight. The British and Irish pretty much hate each other's guts.

Answer 2

England has invaded Ireland several times over many centuries. The most notorious and cruel invasions were in the rules of Elizabeth 1 and Oliver Cromwell.
After the final invasion in the 17th century under the rule of William of Orange, a Dutchman who became King of England, Ireland was used a an English colony and settlers were brought over to displace the Irish people in the North of the island These settlers were mainly Scottish Protestants and despised the Catholic Irish. Other Irish people were displaced by English aristocrats who took the best land in the south.
In the 19th century a famine hit Ireland when the pototo crop failed three years in a row and the native people starved to death in their thousands because they had to give their other crops to their English landlords in payment for rent. Those who could emigrated to America and Canada.
After that a movement slowly grew for Irish independence.
This was coming to a head in 1914 when the British parliament was discussing Home Rule for Ireland which would have kept Ireland in the British Empire but with its own government. This was opposed by the Protestants in the North of Itreland because they would have lost their traditional priveleges over the Catholics.
They prepared to take up arms to stop this happening by seizing control of Ireland for themselves. At this point WW1 broke out and the whole thing was suspended for the duration.
In 1916 a rebellion broke out in Dublin by republican Irishmen who wanted to free Ireland from the British rule entirely. This was crushed and the leaders were hanged.
After WW1 the Home Rule debate was started again and the Protstants once more armed themselves to resist it.
A compromise between the British government and The Protestant Irish in the north was eventually reached in which six counties of Ulster would be divided from the rest of Ireland and still remain under British rule while independence would be granted to the rest of Ireland. The rest of the Irish were forced to accept this.
The island was thus divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
There was then a civil war in the Republic of Ireland between those who had accepted the division and those who wanted a United Ireland.
This was won by the former and the losers ventually went on to form a banned movement called the IRA (Irish Republican Army).
In 1968 in emulation of the black civil rights movement in the USA, a civil rights movement started in Northern Ireland for equal rights for the Catholics who were ruled by the Protestants through a biased voting system and dicriminated against in jobs and housing..
The Protestants reacted with violence and the British Prime Mimister (James Callaghan) sent troops on to the streets of Northern Ireland to protect the Catholics. These troops were unaware of the historical background and in some case made matters worse much as the americans in Iraq today.
The IRA which had become an ineffective force since the 1920s also recruited members to protect the Catholics and opposed the British troops who they saw as an occupying force.
This confrontation quickly escalated until Bloody Sunday in Londonderry when British troops gunned down a peaceful protest march killing some children.
From there it went from bad to worse with both sides committing atrocities and forming further terrorist groups.

Answer 3

since medieval times england had pretty much controlled ireland. during the 1600's many scots were transplanted into northern ireland in order to increase the protestants in ireland

the irish were catholic, the english and scots protestant
and religion was cause enough for rebellion

during the early 20thC ireland had a rise in nationalism, and managed to negotiate (after a small was with england) pretty much a republic(several years later ireland did declare itself a republic and severed most ties with britain, but the protestants in northern ireland were afraid of being left in the hands of the catholics and opted to stay part of Britain, catholics in northern ireland and the republic of ireland thoguht ireland should be united hence the IRA irish republican army, which pretty much just became terrorists

Answer 4

Well, Ellie, you should have started your homework earlier. That being said, have you tried wikipedia?