1. Northern Ireland and Bloody Sunday
... events in history have also affected opinions and attitudes in Northern Ireland today. One such historical event is partition; in 1922 Ireland was split between two entities, one the new republic of Ireland and the other the Northern Irish territory under the governance of Britain. This event of partition was an act which was aimed at easing tensions, the British ... government aimed to establish control over the part of Ireland which had a majority protestant (and, therefore, loyalist) population while releasing a majority catholic Ireland to a new republic, this was compromise from th...
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