Northern Ireland

Running Head : RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE

Religious Conflict in Northern Ireland and the Role of the State (Your Name (Your School

Introduction

Northern Ireland 's past is distinct by its religious conflicts that began the time when Celtic pagans realized their customs and religion cluttered by Christians with scripture and wielding swords . When Ireland was under British rule in the 18th century , the prohibited Catholics not to hold office in the parliament of Ireland , a rule that ran for another century up to 1829

when it was reversed . And then the acquirement of parliamentary majority by Catholics was the beginning of routinely passing legislation in opposition to birth control and divorce to implement church ideology . Then came the brutal clashes or the troubles ' that rocked Northern Ireland in late sixties as a result of a conflict between predominantly catholic civil rights groups and the mainly protestant regime . At the time British troops worked as it was seen in favor of the protestants which followed decades of religious apartheid practice by northern Ireland whose violence only ended when a cease fire agreement that was negotiated during mid 1990

Conflict Background

Planters or British settlers were given confisticated land from the Irish natives in the Ulster plantation in the early 1600 , together with the migration of Protestants to the fallow ' regions of Ulster resulted in a conflict between the settlers and indigenous Catholics . As a consequence of this , there came two bloody religious and ethnic...