Big things Flashcards
(11 cards)
Prison protest, why, name and describe
-Refusal of Special Category Status
- Blanket Protest: refusal to wear prison uniform so wrapped in blankets
- Dirty protest: or no wash protest, refusal to wash, messing up the cells
- Hunger strikes: 1st lead by Brendan Hughes, no dead, 2nd by Bobby Sands, 10 dead
Sinn Féin
- Gerry Adams
- Largest Irish republican party
- Both in ROI and NI
- IRA’s ballot box
- Left wing
- reorganised in 1917 to the irish republic
- triumph in the 1918 general election
- set up the alternative parliament, first dail
Good Friday Agreement
- 1998
- Agreement between NI parties
- Agreement between Irish and British governments
- Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK until majority of both ROI and NI wants it to change
- Decommission of paramilitary weapons
Unionist view
- Technically protestant
- Union between UK and Northern Ireland
Nationalist view
- Technically catholics
- Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Main Events of 60s
- Early 60s: civil rights movement
- 62 closing the border campaign, goulding as chief of staff
- 68: Derry March (one of the bloody sundays)
- 69: belfast-derrylondonderry march, battle of bogside, first death (according to some), operation banner: british troops to streets, IRA split
Main events of 70s
71: internment starts, UDA formation
72: bloody sunday, NI gov dissolved, direct westminster rule, bloody friday, special category status
73: sunningdale agreement
75: internment ends, truce
76: end of special category status, blanket protest starts
Main events of 80s
80: hughes hunger strike
81: sands hunger strike
85: anglo-irish agreement
Main events of the 90s
94: IRA and loyalist ceasefires
96: manchester bombing
97: IRA ceasefire
98: good friday agreement, omagh bombing
Explain IRA’s politics
- coming from turbulence and crisis
- defence of the community
- retaliation
- anti-imperialism
- use of force, armed struggle
- catholicism
- socialism
- irish self-determination
- north illegimate state
how did IRA move from violence to peace
- Realisation of the military stalemate, no win no lose
- Rewards from steps to peace, reforms , electoral success
- Realizing the economic and political truths, unionists not stupid, britain not economically benefitting
AND - Collapse of communism
- end of cold war
- changing role of washington, london, dublin
- eu
