Early NI History
The unsuccessful siege of this city in 1689 is still commemorated by Protestants in Northern Ireland.
What is Derry?
In 2004, this party overtook the UUP as the largest unionist party in Northern Ireland. (100 bonus points if you can name its current leader)
What is the Democratic Unionist Party? (Jeffrey Donaldson)
This political party, strong in both the North and the Republic, has long been considered to be associated with the Irish Republican Army (100 bonus points if you can name its current leader)
What is Sinn Fein (Mary Lou McDonald)?
These two industries laid the initial foundation for jobs and the economy in Belfast; access to jobs in these industries was central to the Catholic Civil Rights movement.
What are shipbuilding and linen (textiles acceptable)?
The Titanic was built in Belfast! They like to say that it was floating when it left.
This definition of the conflict stresses Northern Ireland as a conflict between nationalities, "British vs Irish."
What is the multi-national/bi-national lens?
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
This minister-turned-politician who founded the DUP was perhaps the most famous voice in opposition to Catholic Civil Rights in Irish history.
Who was Ian Paisley?
This individual was one of the key architects of the Good Friday Agreement, and he also helped to found the Social Democratic and Labor and Party.
This petition was signed by over half a million in Ulster, in opposition to the movement for Home Rule (particularly the British Parliament's third Home Rule Act).
Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant
Those who hold this view of the conflict likely see Northern Ireland as being similarly positioned to other countries impacted by the British Empire.
What is the view of Northern Ireland as a colony?
This was the 1366 attempt to re-Anglicize settlers by banning intermarriage with the Irish, requiring the adoption of Irish children by English fathers, and prohibiting the usage of Irish language, custom, law.
What were the Statutes of Kilkenny?
Generally speaking, the difference between this branch of Unionist politics and Unionist politics writ large is this branch's willingness to use physical force.
What is Loyalism?
This kind of status, created by the British Government, initially separated many individuals arrested for their role in The Troubles from common criminals. Its revocation sparked some of the most memorable prison protests of the conflict.
What is Special Category Status?
This movement sought (and continues to seek) to end the longstanding reality of Catholic and Protestant children being educated entirely separately.
What is the movement for integrated education?
This view of the conflict emphasizes disparities in wealth, income, and housing between Catholics and Protestants.
What is Northern Ireland as an arena of class conflict?
By the 1300s, the Normans held nearly all of Ireland, but they intermarried with the Irish and adopted their language and customs. By the early 1400s, England actually controlled only THIS area of Dublin and its surrounding areas.
This fraternal organization is famous for its marches through predominantly Catholic neighborhoods, particularly around the July 12th anniversary of the King William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne.
What is the Orange Order?
The Anglo-Irish Agreement gave this kind of role to the Irish government in policy making in Northern Ireland.
What is consultative?
Broadly speaking, this movement called for the devolution of power from the United Kingdom and toward Irish citizens.
What is home rule?
This view of the conflict emphasizes the ethnic (and even perceived physical and genetic) differences between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
What is Northern Ireland as a biracial society (race based conflict?)
Multi-part question: These three groups made up the "triangular relationship" articulated by McGarry and O'Leary, AND, this country was the primary country of origin for most of the emigrants from one of these groups.
What are the Native Irish, the English, and the Settlers (PRIMARILY Scots)
Please name 3 arguments a Unionist may make for NI to remain within the UK.
Varies, examples: Union is a way to protect interests of Ulster-British people, Union is seen as best political vehicle for the dev in social, economic, and political terms of people of NI, British Welfare state, British economic opportunities, Cultural commonality and people of UK (see themselves as British just as Scottish and Welsh can be simultaneously British) with institutions of British state (NHS, pound sterling, parliament) or historical legacy of empire - victorious/superior culture
Please name 3 policy areas where Catholics viewed there being inequality under Protestant rule.
Inequities in.....
Schooling
Access to health Services
Housing access to public housing
Employment opportunities
Policing and police makeup
Enforcement of internment 1971-75
This nation existed from 1922 to 1937 as a result of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty. Its northern neighbor opted out of joining the new nation, instead choosing to remain a part of the United Kingdom.
What is the Irish Free State?
This view of the conflict emphasizes the institutional electoral and political disadvantages Catholics in Northern Ireland had, particularly when it came to elected representation.
What is the view of Northern Ireland as a pseudo-democracy?