The Troubles in Northern Ireland

BRITISH CONQUEST AND COLONISATION

PARLIAMENTARY TRDITION

THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE

PHYSICAL FORCE TRADITION

SEPRATE COMMUNITIES

RELIGION POLITICS ECONOMICS SOCIAL LIFE

PARTITION

DISCRIMINATION

CIVAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN

GROWTH OF IRA

KING GEORGE V

NATIONALISTS

UNIONISTS

REPUBLICANS

THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY (RUC)

B- SPECIALS

SPECIAL POWERS ACT

INTERNMENT

SECTARIASM

A DISLIKE FOR A PERSON BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION

SEGREGATION

UNEMLPLOYED

LITTLE HOUSING AVAILABLE- BEING BURNT

DISCRIMINATION

POVERTY

INFANT MORTALITY RATES

INCREASED DEATHS BECAUSE OF PNEUMONIA OR TUBERCULOSIS ( TB )

RIOTS AND SECTARIANISM INCREASED

BASIL BROOKE

FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1956-1962

SEAN SOUTH WAS KILLED

1) DIVIDED LOYALTIES

2)EDUCATIONAL FORCE

PROTESTANT CHILDREN ARE THOUGHT DIFFERENTY COMPARED TO CATHOLICS

3)EMPLOYMENT/ HOUSING

COMPETION FOR JOBS

4)VOTING RIGHTS

ELECTIONS WERE FIXED BY ORGANISING CONSTITUENCIES TO GIVE UNINISTS A MAJORITY

SOCIAL WELFARE BENEFITS INCREASED

A FREE HEALTH SERVICE

A FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION

THIS NEW GENERATION WAS LESS WILLING TO PUT UP WITH DISCRIMINATION

CAPTAIN TERENCE O NEILL BECAME PRIME MINISTER OF NI IN 1963

IAN PAISLEY IS HIS MAIN CRITIC

VISITS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1921 ( 44 YEARS )

LIVED IN DUNGANNON

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

JOHN HOME

GERRY FITT

1) DEATHS DURING THE TROUBLES

2) DESTRUCTION

3) POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE TROUBLES

4) ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

5 ) NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS

LEMASS AND O NEILL IN THE 1960s

DEATHS

MORE CATHOLICS THAN PROTOSTANTS

47,500 PEOPLE INJURED

3,677 DEATHS ( IRA KILLED MOST)

DESTRUCTION

OVER 16,000 BOMBINGS

POLITCAL CONSEQUENCES

POWER SHARING WAS INTRODUCED

SINN FEIN PARTY

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

SOUTH CATCHES UP WITH THE NORTH ECONOMICALLY

RISING UNEMPLOYMENT

AUGUST 1998

28 PEOPLE ARE KILLED

IAN PAISLEY BECAME THE FIRST MINISTER

GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT

PM MARGERAT THATCHER AND TAOISEACH GARRET FITZGERLAD SIGNED AN AGREEMENT AT HILLSBORUGH CASTLE

AN INTER GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE

THE BRITSH GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT BACK DOWN AND THE AGREEMENT SURVIVED

DOWNING STREET DECLARATION 1993

ENGLAND WOULD NOT BE AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND, IF THE SOUTH AND WEST AGREED

19 SOLDIERS KILLED IN 2 ROADSIDE BOMBS

LORD MOUNTBATTONS BOAT IS BLOWN UP

POLITICAL STATUES

POPE JOHN PAUL II IS INVOLVED

A HUNDRED THOUSNAD PEOPLE ATTENDED HIS FUNERAL WHEN HE DIED AFTER THE HUNGER STRIKE

HIS DEATH PROVOKED RIOTS IN NI

NOV-DEC 1974

IAN PAISLEY

LOYALIST STRIKE

DIRECT RULE WAS RESTORED

THE SUNNINGDALE AGREEMENT

PROPOSED A POWER SHARING GOVERNMENT FOR NI

CROSS BORDER

THE UNIONIST PARTY ( FAULKNER) AND THE SDLP (FITT) FORMED THE GOVERNMENT

28TH MARCH 1972

14 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, NONE OF WHOM WERE SUBSEQUENTLY FOUND TO HAVE BEEN ARMED

1972

A BRITISH PARAMILIARY GROUP BASED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

CHARLES HAUGHEY AND NEIL BLANEY

1970

THE GOVERNMENT HAD THE POWER TO ARREST SUSPECTS AND PUT THEM IN JAIL WITHOUT TRIAL

APRIL 1969

TV CAMERAS CAPTURED THE RUC BEATING THE PEACEFULL PROTESTERS