Describe the disadvantages faced by the Catholics in Northern Irelandin the mid 1960's

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Describe the disadvantages faced by the Catholics in Northern Ireland in the mid 1960’s

In the mid 1960’s Catholics were under many heavy disadvantages. Employment, the law, education and housing are very main points in which affect the civil rights of the Catholics.

Many Catholics were unemployed; businesses and industries were more than often set up in protestant areas leaving Catholics a lot less chance of getting a job, for example. If a protestant and a catholic apply for the same job, no matter how many qualifications and/or experience the catholic had, the protestant would always get the job. Another description of the discrimination directed at the Catholics is that the Harland and Wolff shipyard had 10,000 employees and yet only 400 of those were catholic.

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Catholics had no fair treatment or equal opportunities compared to the p protestants in the housing either. Two thirds of the houses built by the local authorities went to Protestants, the authorities tried to cut down on the amount of catholic houses, as you could only vote if you owned a home.

Education was also a very unfair criticism again towards the Catholics.

Catholics always had the worst equipment where as the protestant schools had the best (the total opposite).

Gerrymandering was ensuring that there was no way possible that the Catholics could successfully elect there priminister. They ...

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