UK Politics (2) Northern Ireland Parties and Politics Flashcards
Unionism/Loyalism
A political stance favouring the continued unity of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Irish Republicanism…
The movement for an unified and independent Ireland
The decade in which ‘the troubles’ started in Northern Ireland…
1960’s
The community which faced decades of discrimination in Northern Ireland
Catholic/Nationalist
British troops were deployed to NI in which year?
1969
British troops shot dead 14 unarmed republican anti - internment demonstrators in Derry in !972. It became known as…
Bloody Sunday
Until 1998 violence raged between which two groups
Republicans - largely catholic
Loyalists - largely protestant
The republican Easter Rising took place in which year?
1916
Treaty agreeing the partition of Ireland into the Irish Free State and loyalist Northern Ireland took place in which year?
1921
The 1998 agreement which put an end to the vast majority of violence…
The Good Friday Agreement
Conflict between pro treaty government and anti treaty treaty Irish Republican Army
Irish Civil War 1922-23
Irish republican party founded in 1905 and which split after the Irish Civil War
Sinn Fein
During the ‘troubles’ Sinn Fein became seen as the political wing of…
The Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Sinn Fein leaders who negotiated with the British government leading to the Good Friday Agreement?
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness
Sinn Fein ideology and policy
A left wing socialist party
Refusal to take their seats at Westminster
Economically left wing
