[12:50:30] Raffi : Northern Ireland With Special Attention To The Northern Ireland Conflict
...Ireland
5.1. Unionists
5.2. Nationalists
6 Historical background
6.1. First settlements
6.2. St. Patrick
6.3. The Vikings
6.4. The Normans
6.5. The “Plantations” of English and Scottish
6.6. Elizabethan wars
6.7. The Battle of Boyne
6.8. The Great famine
6.9. The Fenians
6.10. Easter Rising 1916
7 The Northern Ireland conflict
7.1. The Birth of the conflict
7.2. Bloody Sunday
7.3. Bloody Friday
7.4. The hunger strikes
7.5. The Good Friday Agreement
7.6. The long “peace”
8 Sources
1. Introduction “Die Presse”, Friday 7th of April 2006
“Despite the murdering of a British agent in Ireland one week ago the English Premier Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern are talking about a new plan for peace in Northern Ireland. They tried to make clear for the arguing parties, that this would be their last chance. If they would not establish a new regional parliament for the Province of Ulster until May 15th 2006, the administration of Northern Ireland will be made by the English for indefinite time”.
The Northern Ireland Conflict is a long lasting story. If British and Irish governments are talking about “The long peace” they only mean a policy of limiting the conflict to an “acceptable level of violence” in the last years. The only aim, a peaceful living of all Irish population, is not reached until 2006.
I will try to illuminate the background of the politics of Northern Ireland by dealing with the following points:
The Country
The actual political groups of Northern Ireland
The historical background of Ireland
The Northern Ireland Conflict
Religion or English / Irish identity - reason for the Northern Ireland Conflict?
2. Country
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom or rather one of its four constituent countries. To its territory belong Rathlin Island in the...
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