Y did the brits take over the north of ireland?

Answer 1

Why did the Germans and Danes take over England?

conranger1........where did you get the idea that James II/VII died without issue?

http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/stuart_10.htm

Answer 2

It wasn't the "Brits" who took over Ireland it was the French Normans who had (under the rule of William the Conqueror in 1066) also taken over England and, later, Wales.

The whole of Ireland was under rule from Westminster until the Irish wanted their independence. However, the majority of people in the Six Counties of the North were Protestant, of Scottish descent, and they wanted to stay part of the UK.

The Catholics living in the North weren't happy about this, there were civil rights abuses taking place with Catholics being treated as second class citizens and this is why the troubles started.

Answer 3

Wow - that hit a raw nerve with barking. The British taking over the North of Ireland is very controversial and it depends on who you talk to as to the reasons. My mother who was an Irish Catholic would tell me one thing and my father who was a Protestant told me another! The only way to know the answer is for you to look at both sides of the arguement and make up your own mind. Thankfully the situation in Northern Ireland looks positive but as you can see from that first response your question provokes some anger and disagreement.

Answer 4

All of Ireland used to be under British rule. Then Britain left it to make its own government as the Irish wanted their own. However, there were British people living in Ireland who wanted to be part of the UK. The majority were in Ulster (the north); Antrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Down, Londonderry, Armagh, Monaghan, Cavan and Donegal.

There was alot of British living in Monaghan, Cavan and Donegal but it had a Nationalist majority so Britain decided to leave it to the Republic of Ireland. Since the other 6 counties had a vast majority, it was decided that the area should be part of the UK because the citizens there wanted it.

That's the answer to your question.

Answer 5

All of Ireland used to be a British colony. When the British first landed it was a nation of farmers and pagans and not much else. British built up cities and brought industry and such to Ireland and once the country was improved the Irish decided they wanted it back. An uprising in 1916 led to the British government deploying troops and in 1921 a treaty was signed giving control of 26 counties of Ireland to the Republican government, whilst 6 counties of Ulster whose majority population wish to remain British would stay under British control. Anti-treaty forces fought a civil war with pro-treaty forces until 1927

Answer 6

A very brief history:

If you care to go back to the correct point in history you will find out it was the NORMANS who moved into Ireland, they conquered England in 1066 so if you want to be technical we were conquered by the French. :-P

As the history time line moves on the Normans were assimilated into what became the British Isles, all was fine and dandy under James a Catholic King, but when he died without issue (family) the realm was handed over to William of Orange a Dutchman who happened to be a Protestant, as was in those days, all the leading families to keep their lands and estates changed their religion, anybody who objected to changing their religion was branded a traitor and paid the penalty.

The working class did not exist with land and property in those days anywhere in Europe they were in service to the Land-lord, or wealthy middle classes who ran the trades.

A lot of Scottish settled in Northern Ireland taking their particular brand of the Protestant religion with them, they in turn fought in the Religious wars in the 1600's / 1700's and were on the winning side, so the North remained a strong bastion who regarded the King or Queen of Great Britain the head of the Church.

Move the time line forward and you see that the working classes began to get rights and make legitimate equal demands despite religion, this was strongly resisted by the Protestant minority who thought that history had granted them certain rights, this broke out into what is referred to as the troubles which ran on up until the recent past, even today religion is a touch subject.

However the sides are settling down with dialog between them.

Inflammatory posts by Pro-Nationalist or Pro-Unionist do not help the situation what so ever and are a sign of the immaturity of the posters, and not reflective of the most of the Nationalist or Unionist population of Ireland.
The only way to promote PEACE and UNDERSTANDING is through meaningful political and social dialog NOT with violence.

Answer 7

They didn't.

Various 'British' governments (governing 'great' and 'lesser' britain, together with many smaller islands) were responsible for misrule (most famously a series of famines thought to be caused by an agricultural policy that relied on a lot of (foreign and unsuited to the climate) potato growing) in lesser britain. People all over the islands thought that the 'irish' would be better governed by irish governments. However, 'ireland' had a lot of people living there, who had come from other places in the UK, and from the wider empire.

When the Irish Republic was formed, a piece of the island was kept under UK rule. This pissed some people off (on both sides of the debate).

Answer 8

I thought the "north of Ireland" was the most northerly tip of County Donegal.
I wasn't aware the brits had taken it over. Could there be an Anglo-irish dispute brewing?

Answer 9

conranger1 said it all really. A good informative non-biased answer from someone who knows what he is talking about. Can't really add anything to that.

The problem with asking a question like this on here is that you will just get a load of inflammatory (and often very poorly informed) posts from pro-Unionists or pro-Republicans that don't really tell you anything other than the authors are full of bigotry and hatred.

Answer 10

mercenaries in 1169 under the direction of Richard De Clare when they came to fight the vikings... it was a period of huge religious reform when they attempted to convert the pagan vikings to a christian religion.

as far as why they're still in the north of ireland, the majority of people in the north of ireland decided that they'd rather stay an english state than become independant. it mostly boils down to religious conflict... catholics versus protestant.

take a deep look into the history of ireland and you will see that the british didn't care about the irish people. during the potato famine in the 1800's, they let millions of people die and they STILL wanted the rent for their lands, who cares where it came from, they felt it was owed to them.

Answer 11

It was not the Brits It was just land owners. The lords of

England and Scotland who as all land owners are greedy

and want to own more and more.. They start wars and when

the men are away from their crofts they force the women folk

from their land to get even richer