"Was internment the main cause of the events of Bloody Sunday?"

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Bethany Roberts 10ew.

“Was internment the main cause of the events of Bloody Sunday?”

Internment was one of the many causes of Bloody Sunday. Internment is imprisonment of suspects without trial. These men were badly treated, they were denied sleep, subjected to continuous noise and often “hooded” at times when they were not being interrogated. Nearly all of the 1600 internees were Catholic.

     There were long-term causes and short-term causes of Bloody Sunday. An example of a long-term cause is the bitterness felt by Catholics about their treatment by Protestants. An example of a short-term cause is perceived bias of police and troops or protest marches by Civil Rights Groups. The events of Bloody Sunday were a consequence of a combination of long and short-term causes, all of which made Catholics and Protestants mistrust and hate each other.

     The long-term causes were events that took place in the 14th Century to the early 20th Century. These long term causes are the Plantation of Ireland, the protestant takeover and Cromwell, the Battle of Boyne, the potato famine that took place in the 1840’s in which 1,000,000 Irish Catholic peasants starved to death, the 1916 rebellion and the discrimination against the Catholics.

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      The Battle of Boyne was a turning point for Ireland. The hopes of James and the Irish Catholics were dashed in 1690. The new Protestant king, William of Orange, followed James to Ireland with his own army and defeated him at the Battle of Boyne on the 11th of July 1690. After 1690 Protestants made sure they had complete control of Ireland. Ulster Protestants still celebrate the Battle of Boyne today and William of Orange remains one of their heroes. Protestants prevented any further attempts by Catholics to regain power. More Catholic land was confiscated so that by ...

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