History Coursework
Part A Question 3:How did the attitudes of the Protestants develop in the 19th Century? (eg towards issues such as Home Rule)
Since the plantations of the Protestants into Ireland in the 16th and the 17th Century, Britain had put a lot of money in Ulster to support Protestants so that the plantation project would work. This meant that in the 19th Century the industrial revolution in Britain also developed in the North of Ireland were great industrialization took place. Such as shipyards were built were the biggest ship in the world was made the Titanic. This is why Protestants were so against Home Rule because they thought that if Home Rule was finalised the Catholics would rebel and take all the good land back and they that they would take all the good jobs because at this time the Catholics did not have very good land and there jobs were no were near as good as the Protestants jobs.
Part A Question 3:How did the attitudes of the Protestants develop in the 19th Century? (eg towards issues such as Home Rule)
Since the plantations of the Protestants into Ireland in the 16th and the 17th Century, Britain had put a lot of money in Ulster to support Protestants so that the plantation project would work. This meant that in the 19th Century the industrial revolution in Britain also developed in the North of Ireland were great industrialization took place. Such as shipyards were built were the biggest ship in the world was made the Titanic. This is why Protestants were so against Home Rule because they thought that if Home Rule was finalised the Catholics would rebel and take all the good land back and they that they would take all the good jobs because at this time the Catholics did not have very good land and there jobs were no were near as good as the Protestants jobs.
