Is the sufficient evidence in sources D to H to explain why the troubles broke out in Northern Ireland in 1969?
Source D is an extract from the book 'The Price of My Soul'. It is about a Roman Catholic woman named Bernadette Devlin who was born and raised in the the Catholic region of Dungannon and she attended a Catholic school. She tells us how the second in command at her school, felt about Protestants and the British. It says she didn't hate the Protestants but didn't see them as Irish people. It also says that she disliked the English because her family had suffered at the hands of the British forces. Perhaps she has this view point because one or more of her family members was wrongfully killed, or put in Internment or they might have been victims of martial law. She said that the protestants were different and that they were educated differently to Catholics. Both Protestants and Catholics were educated differently with their own group being made out as superior to the other. This source was published in 1969 which is the year when the troubles began and its also a secondary source. This source is unreliable because it’s the opinion of a catholic teacher and therefore making it almost certainly bias. The source has its limitations because it doesn’t say that Bernadette became the leading member of the civil rights movement during the 1969 and at only the tender age of 21 became the youngest female to enter the House of Commons when she won the mid-Ulster election. Furthermore it doesn’t tell you exactly what happened in to make her family dislike the English although the same viewpoint was held by the majority of Roman Catholics because of the sheer amount of time it took the English to grant the Irish home rule and they also refused them Northern Ireland which remains a part of Great Britain. It doesn’t go into details about what is going on but I still feel that it has sufficient evidence because it shows how a Catholic person felt about the British and the Protestants. If a protestant overheard a Catholic saying that they weren’t true Irish people, this could cause trouble and stir up violence so it contains sufficient evidence of why trouble broke out.
