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.