Describe the disadvantages faced by Catholics in Northern Ireland in the mid 60's? The partition of Ireland took place in Ireland in the 1920's,

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Describe the disadvantages faced by Catholics in Northern Ireland in the mid 60’s?

The partition of Ireland took place in Ireland in the 1920’s, the Ireland country had to be separated because protestant will be a majority so such things as votes will not work, as the Catholics will be a minority. Ireland was portioned in to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. 66% were protestant, which are 820,000 people. 34% were a minority of Catholics, which were 427,000. As theses two groups hated each other Catholics were more likely to fact disadvantages in things like politics, Housing, Education, Employment and the Law.

Politically Catholic face disadvantages due to the fact Protestant had a majority of Mp’s because as they were a majority in Ireland, this meant there were more protestant so there would be more protestant Mp’s. This is why protestant were favoured. It is difficult for the group which did not have many Mp’s because when discussion between Mp’s took place protestants would disagree. Gerrymandering is the practice of dividing the constinivces of a voting area so as to give one party an unfair disadvantage. The Protestant used this method so to cheat the Catholics by giving those who have more property and business more votes, because most Protestant were better of than Catholics it meant they would have more votes and Protestant already being a majority meant they would have much more votes than Catholics.

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Catholics also faced disadvantages in housing as they lived in very poor houses. Protestant gave a priority to protestant in allocating council houses. Also new council houses were built in protestant areas as a result Catholics lived in very poor housing. Source D is an illustration of how Catholics lived in diabolical house conditions. The houses were slum

They were also small, they had filthy living conditions, lack of space and the bath was outside and this left the residents very unhappy. Source D was not very reliable to say that all the Catholics live in poor condition ...

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