"The Troubles- trace their origins 200 years back to the reign of King Henry VIII, a time when English Protestantism was introduced to the largely Catholic population of Ireland. Strains of enmity arose between the two religious factions that populated Ireland at the time & ... to the southern regions. The tensions between the closely residing religious people, erupted in 1690 in the Battle of Boyne, where William of Orange led the Protestants to victory over King James II, bringing much of Ireland into the hands of the non-Catholics. The religious acrimony between the two spiritual divisions...

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... the outlying towns of Leinster and Munster (Becket, Short History). The Protestant Reformation introduced into Ireland in the 1530s made little progress in winning converts among the indigenous Irish population. King James I was, however, a committed member of the Church of England and was concerned to promote the established church in Ireland. Consequently, religious reformation was central to the ideological framework of the ... in Scotland. As tensions rose in England and mobs began to form in the streets, Wentworth became an early casualty of the ensuing civil war, and was executed ...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. Can we combat a nationalist terrorism whose structures are founded on national historical and ideological roots, in the same way as international terrorism whose strength lies in the ... of individual liberties, and the setting up of specialized courts to try the perpetrators of these acts of violence. These are the measures that we will focus on in this study. In ...

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