60s onwards Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
What were the issues with politics in Northern Ireland?
A
- In the Assembly losing party had to agree as well -> nothing went through
- Gerrymandering and First Past the Post
- Social housing allowing voting district manipulation
2
Q
Terence O’Neill
A
- Prime Minister 1963-1969
- Leader of UUP
- Attempts of community building
- Encouraging pulling back anti-catholic practises
- Slowly removing catholic issues so they’d feel Northern Irish not Irish
3
Q
Ian Paisley
A
- Off the rocket
- Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster: fundamentalism
- Catholic hatred
- Charismatic, great speaker
- Lower middle classes love, middle classes embarrased
- Political ambitions, hates O’Neill
4
Q
Orange Order
A
- Extreme unionism
- catholic hate
- part of UUP
- Defensive sectarian force, aiming to protect protestants
5
Q
How was the Irish civil rights movement born?
A
- Education act guarantees school up to the age of 16 -> educated young adults emerging
- TV and media, information from around the world
- USA civil rights movement inspiring
6
Q
Why was the government suspicious of NICRA?
A
- Many people involved were catholics
- People associated and in power had connections to IRA
- IRA past of involvement in other organizations (wolfe tone societies, trade unions)
- Protestants were scared of IRA, fear makes people irrational
7
Q
Three security forces in NI
A
- RUC: daily police, armed, very protestant, some catholics
- B Specials: under NI government, orange order, protestant
- UDR: military trained, under british army, protestant
8
Q
Explain shit hitting the fan
A
- NICRA marches banned, still go on
- March from Belfast to DerryLondonderry mobbed on route
- Police brutality against reasonable civil rights demands
- Radicalization
-Leads to breakdown in civil order especially in Belfast and DerryLondonderry
9
Q
Split of IRA
A
- Goulding’s IRA with no guns cant really help the catholics
- Sectarian violence does not fit in with Gouldings ideals of united Ireland
- I Ran Away
- Old guys who weren’t interested in marxism start coming back
- Army convention -> split to Official and Provisional
- Provisional IRA violent, in NI, urban guerrilla
