Introduction The Irish Troubles are very important in the Irish history. It started at the end of the 1960's, when the British Army was fist sent to Northern Ireland. It started as a mission to gain more rights for the Catholic population. Later this turned into a battle about the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Since 1922 Northern Ireland had belonged to the United Kingdom, but now the Catholic minority wanted it to become a part of the Republic of Ireland. Even though it was the Catholics
What determines our identity? I’m a daughter as well as a friend, student, badminton player, Catholic, and Danish citizen. However the real question to identify me is why? Why do I go to boarding school, why do I bother to be a friend, why do I play badminton? At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what you do, it’s why you do it that defines you. A great example of people’s cultures is the matter of their religious believes. I’m a Catholic. However I’m only a Catholic because of my family. My mom
Bloody Sunday victims were declared innocent and the British government has to apologise 38 years after atrocity. This is the sad conclusion made on June 10th, 2010 when the Bloody Sunday report was published by the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Three kinds of documents have been chosen for the presentation: a front page of a newspaper, a picture and a video. The first document is the front page of the newspaper The Daily Mirror published on January 31st 1972, the day after the tragic
of a five-year protest that took place during the troubles in Northern Ireland. The decision taken by the British government to withdraw Special Category Status for paramilitary prisoners was the spark that ignited the protests from the prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as a blanket protest but escalated into becoming a dirty protest, followed by the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes. These hunger strikes quickly became a public conflict between the leading members of the IRA and the British