History Coursework
“Since 1972 the British Government has tried a number of solutions to the crisis in Northern Ireland”
How successful has this process been?
The division of Ireland started on Easter Monday April 24th 1916 where a group of Irish nationalists rose up against the rule of Great Britain mainly in Dublin. The British government suspended a home rule bill due to the outbreak of WW1. Protestants and Catholics were wanted different things the Protestants wanted to be part of the UK and the Catholics wanted to be a free state and rule themselves. The answer to this problem was to split the country and have the six counties of Ulster to be Protestant and ruled by the UK called Northern Ireland and the rest to be the Republic of Ireland. Everything was fine with this there were no major incidents for fifty years.