'A Brief History of Northern Ireland'

'For centuries Northern Ireland has been a trothfield ridden by war and negate. The reasons tramp this are m all, simply the main problems were political science, holiness and discrimination. Such problems direct to plenty of uprisings and revolts. Children grew up in an succession where they were taught to hate their neighbors, to solicitude for their lives and to conjure for what they re cry (out) in. \nIt all started in 1169 when England invaded Ireland. Only for the Brits to develop a community who wouldnt go downwardly without a fight. in that respect was a coarse religious conflict in the midst of the Protestants and Catholics. The Protestants were broadly British and the Catholics were Irish. The Protestants that were go from England and Scotland into Ireland were let upn the lift out separate of the land, and because of that the policy-making battle as well became a religious one. The most k immediately battle between the Protestants and Catholics is th e troth of the battle of Boyne. The battle took place in 1690 by the River Boyne and was a incident for the Catholics. The Catholics were led by King throng II of Scotland, who had to give in to the British King, William III of Orange. Thats why some Protestants in Northern Ireland call themselves Orangemen. After the Battle of the Boyne most of the well-mannered rights were taken away from the Catholics. No Catholic could be voted or be elected for Parliament, they could non join the armament or the navy, nor contrive in any civil office, they were non allowed to have weapons, they could non study at the university, no Catholic teachers were allowed in Irish schools and no Catholic priests were allowed in the Irish churches. The fight then(prenominal) became a fight not palliate about the politics and religion, but oer basic civil rights as well. \nIreland is now divided into 2 parts, but the field was not divided into 2 parts until 1921. 26 counties in the south beca me the Irish Free State, which was still tied to capacious Britain, but it had a certain emancipation to rule itself. more than than 90% of the po...'