Northern Ireland competes separately at the Commonwealth Games, and people from Northern Ireland may compete for either Great Britain or Ireland at the Olympic Games. (National Library of Ireland on The Commons / Wikimedia Commons). Compared to a similar survey in 1998, this shows a fall in the percentage of Protestants identifying as British and Ulster and a rise in those identifying as Northern Irish. Northern Ireland has underdeveloped transport infrastructure, with most infrastructure concentrated around Greater Belfast, Greater Derry, and Craigavon. The Catholic Protestant Divide in Nothern Ireland The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the UK Government. Irish nationalists had also formed a paramilitary organisation, the Irish Volunteers. The breakdown of religion or religion brought up in within these new boundaries at the time of the 2021 census was as follows.[3]. Major seaports at Larne and Belfast carry passengers and freight between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [24] There was informal mutual segregation by both communities,[25] and the Unionist governments were accused of discrimination against the Irish nationalist and Catholic minority. Is the IRA Protestant or Catholic? The year 2021 marks 100 years since the Government of the United Kingdom and Ireland divided the Emerald Isle into two self-governing political entitiesNorthern Ireland and Southern Irelandunder the Government of Ireland Act. In the city of Derry, which had a two-thirds Catholic majority, the voting districts had been gerrymandered so badly that it was controlled politically by [Protestant] loyalists for 50 years.. In the summer of 1920, sectarian violence erupted in Belfast and Derry, and there were mass burnings of Catholic property in Lisburn and Banbridge. Irish Sign Language (ISL) has some influence from the French family of sign language, which includes American Sign Language (ASL). [27] This unrest sparked the Troubles, a thirty-year conflict involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries and state forces, which claimed over 3,500 lives and injured 50,000 others. Communal counting: The Northern Ireland census - Fact Check NI They modeled themselves on the American civil rights movement to the extent that one of the songs sung in Northern Ireland was We Shall Overcome, says Smyth, who edited a 2017 book titled Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland. This was bitterly opposed by Irish Unionists, most of whom were Protestants, who feared an Irish devolved government dominated by Irish nationalists and Catholics. Catholic vs Protestant: The Troubles of Northern Ireland Episode 1 youth This segment comes from Episode 1: War + Peace. More importantly, from the 1980s onward, we see a liberalization in the Irish Republic, with a lessening hold of the Catholic Church on Irish culture, education, and the state. Even kerbstones in some areas are painted red-white-blue or green-white-orange, depending on whether local people express unionist/loyalist or nationalist/republican sympathies. Each summer, during the "marching season", these groups have hundreds of parades, deck streets with British flags, bunting and specially-made arches, and light large towering bonfires in the "Eleventh Night" celebrations. [60], As expected, the Parliament of Northern Ireland resolved on 7 December 1922 (the day after the establishment of the Irish Free State) to exercise its right to opt out of the Free State by making an address to King George V.[61] The text of the address was: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Most Gracious Sovereign, We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Senators and Commons of Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, having learnt of the passing of the Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922, being the Act of Parliament for the ratification of the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, do, by this humble Address, pray your Majesty that the powers of the Parliament and Government of the Irish Free State shall no longer extend to Northern Ireland. Belfast was a key industrial city in the UK's war effort, producing ships, tanks, aircraft, and munitions. The erection by some district councils of bilingual street names in both English and Irish,[179] invariably in predominantly nationalist districts, is resisted by unionists who claim that it creates a "chill factor" and thus harms community relationships. In 1973, Northern Ireland held a referendum to determine if it should remain in the United Kingdom, or be part of a united Ireland. For information on recent communal conflicts in Northern Ireland, see the Troubles. [18] Most Protestants were unionists/loyalists who sought to maintain Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom, while most Catholics were Irish nationalists/republicans who sought an independent United Ireland. Northern Ireland police, including members of the Ulster Special Constabulary, guarding a road near the Fermanagh/Cavan border (circa 1920s). Summary. Richard Dawson Bates, the Minister for Home Affairs, had prepared too late, assuming that Belfast was far enough away to be safe. Most state schools in Northern Ireland are predominantly Protestant, while the majority of Catholic children attend schools maintained by the Catholic Church. This is especially important in neighborhoods throughout Northern Ireland considered strongholds of Catholics or Protestants. Unlike most areas of the United Kingdom, in the last year of primary school, many children sit entrance examinations for grammar schools. Access is also available to satellite and cable services. The townland is situated in the civil parish of Derriaghy and the historic Barony of Belfast Upper. [41], Unionists were in a minority in Ireland as a whole, but a majority in the province of Ulster, especially the counties Antrim, Down, Armagh and Londonderry. Census 2021: More from Catholic background in NI than Protestant Attempts at resistance were swiftly crushed everywhere outside of Ulster. The state security forces the British Army and the police (the Royal Ulster Constabulary) were also involved in the violence. [31] Its economy has grown significantly since the late 1990s. NIFL clubs are semi-professional or Intermediate.NIFL Premiership clubs are also eligible to compete in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League with the league champions entering the Champions league second qualifying round and the 2nd placed league finisher, the European play-off winners and the Irish Cup winners entering the Europa League second qualifying round. But then Brexit happened. [93] According to a 2015 opinion poll, 70% express a long-term preference of the maintenance of Northern Ireland's membership of the United Kingdom (either directly ruled or with devolved government), while 14% express a preference for membership of a united Ireland. In September 1919, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George tasked a committee with planning another home rule bill. How do other sports in the island cope with the situation? Sinn Fin's elected members boycotted the British parliament and founded a separate Irish parliament (Dil ireann), declaring an independent Irish Republic covering the whole island. The state-owned Channel 4 and the privately owned Channel 5 also broadcast in Northern Ireland. downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer, 100 years on: The partition of Ireland explained, Microscopes and soap bubbles show the art of science, Douglass Leadership House to undergo operational, physical changes. There are 462 seats that will be contested in all of Northern Ireland's 11 councils. It first met on 7 June and formed its first devolved government, headed by Ulster Unionist Party leader James Craig. Working class areas in the north and east of the city were particularly hard hit, and over 1,000 people were killed and hundreds were seriously injured. While Northern Ireland had a clear Protestant majority when it was established, it also had a substantial Catholic minoritylarger than many students realize, says Weaver. Maney, Gregory. King George V addressed the ceremonial opening of the Northern parliament on 22 June. [57] The British Army was deployed and the Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) was formed to help the regular police. religion or religion brought up in), at the 2021 census 45.7% of the population came from a Catholic background, 43.5% from a Protestant background, 1.5% from other religious backgrounds, and 5.6% from non-religious backgrounds. Northern Ireland | Facts & Information | Infoplease The largest island of Northern Ireland is Rathlin, off the north Antrim coast. In the 2011 census the same process could only assign a religion to 94% of the population and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ceased to call the measure "community background" and instead called it "religion or religion brought up in". The BBC has two regional radio stations which broadcast in Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle. This sparked the Home Rule Crisis. [204][205] Northern Ireland has also contributed several players to the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team, including Alan Dunbar and Paul Cutler who played on the victorious 2011 team in Scotland. This is where I start on the topic of Irish partition in my course. Those counties were not yet an Irish Republic; they were a dominion within the British Empire, but no longer a part of the United Kingdom. In the south, the once-unpopular Easter rebels immediately became national heroes. Belfast is the most diverse local government district (7.1%) followed by Mid Ulster (4%) and Lisburn and Castlereagh (3.9%). [104] Publications of HM Treasury[105] and the Department of Finance and Personnel of the Northern Ireland Executive,[106] on the other hand, describe Northern Ireland as being a "region of the UK". Following this, the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain pushed for the two kingdoms to be merged, in an attempt to quell violent sectarianism, remove discriminatory laws, and prevent the spread of French-style republicanism. "How much discrimination was there under the unionist regime, 192168? As was intended by unionists and their supporters in Westminster, Northern Ireland had a unionist majority, who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom;[18] they were generally the Protestant descendants of colonists from Britain. The make-up of the Northern Ireland Assembly reflects the appeals of the various parties within the population. However, because in the past Catholic families tended to send their deaf children to schools in Dublin[citation needed] where Irish Sign Language (ISL) is commonly used, ISL is still common among many older deaf people from Catholic families. [166], Neither government, however, extends its citizenship to all persons born in Northern Ireland. Of the four, football is the most popular in Northern Ireland. While the majority of disenfranchised electors were Protestant, Catholics were over-represented since they were poorer and had more adults still living in the family home.[79]. [85], On 28 July 2005, the Provisional IRA declared an end to its campaign and has since decommissioned what is thought to be all of its arsenal. The highest maximum temperature recorded was 31.4C (88.5F), registered in July 2021 at Armagh Observatory's weather station. And, indeed, when the civil rights movement in the 1960s came along, it did, with a 30-year period of violence, the Troubles. The Irish Football Association (IFA) serves as the organising body for association football in Northern Ireland, with the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) responsible for the independent administration of the three divisions of national domestic football, as well as the Northern Ireland Football League Cup. In 1169, Ireland was invaded by a coalition of forces under the command of the English crown that quickly overran and occupied most of the island, beginning 800 years of foreign central authority. Parishes in Northern Ireland | nidirect Main railway lines linking to and from Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station and Lanyon Place railway station are: The cross-border road connecting the ports of Larne in Northern Ireland and Rosslare Harbour in the Republic of Ireland is being upgraded as part of an EU-funded scheme. The main universities in Northern Ireland are Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University, and the distance learning Open University which has a regional office in Belfast. The county boundaries still appear on Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Maps and the Philip's Street Atlases, among others. [75], The Troubles, which started in the late 1960s, consisted of about 30 years of recurring acts of intense violence during which 3,254 people were killed[76] with over 50,000 casualties. Northern Ireland glossary L-Z How the Troubles Began in Northern Ireland - History The IRA carried out attacks on British forces in the north-east but was less active than in the rest of Ireland. It won the European Cup in 1999. It was the hottest day of the year for England, Wales and Northern Ireland this Saturday, just days ahead of King Charles' Coronation. In a new book, professor of history Stewart Weaver chronicles journeys of discovery from the pre-historic trek of humans across the Bering Strait to the mid-20th century deep sea voyages of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Protestant loyalists attacked Catholics in reprisal for IRA actions. The six counties of Northern Ireland are among the nine governed by the Ulster branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union, the governing body of rugby union in Ireland. However, in the 19th century, the language was seen as a common heritage, with Ulster Protestants playing a leading role in the Gaelic revival. 759 (N.I. [185], As of March2004[update] the UK Government recognises only British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language as the official sign languages used in Northern Ireland.[186][187]. PATTERNS OF CATHOLIC-PROTESTANf - JSTOR [200] The most notable example is whether Northern Ireland's second-largest city should be called "Derry" or "Londonderry". A man walks past a Marian mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb. 20, 2013. This became known as the Irish War of Independence. In the final raid, Luftwaffe bombs inflicted extensive damage to the docks and the Harland and Wolff shipyard, closing it for six months. Dunbar also won The Amateur Championship in 2012, at Royal Troon. Catholics live largely in the west and south, apart from a small pocket in the far north-east. [56] Conflict continued intermittently for two years, mostly in Belfast, which saw "savage and unprecedented" communal violence between Protestants and Catholics, including rioting, gun battles, and bombings. [23] For the next fifty years, Northern Ireland had an unbroken series of Unionist Party governments. A recipient of the University of Rochesters 2021 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Weaver teaches about the partition of Ireland as part of his course Great Britain and Ireland since 1800. The local economy has seen contraction during the Great Recession. Social housing need '26 times greater' in Catholic area of north The Northern Ireland government was criticised heavily for its lack of preparation, and Northern Ireland Prime Minister J. M. Andrews resigned. [65], For its first fifty years, Northern Ireland had an unbroken series of Ulster Unionist Party governments. Some authors choose this word but note that it is "unsatisfactory". It defies the whole spirit of the Good Friday Agreement, the power-sharing agreement that ended the Troubles, in 1998, and tended to diminish the distinctions between north and south. Unlike in the rest of the country, where Gaelic authority continued only in scattered, remote pockets, the major kingdoms of Ulster would mostly remain intact with English authority in the province contained to areas on the eastern coast closest to Great Britain. So its not true that Ireland, in general, chose this moment to rebel. The Belfast Giants have competed in the Elite Ice Hockey League since the 200001 season and are the sole Northern Irish team in the league. [78] From 1967 to 1972 the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), which modelled itself on the US civil rights movement, led a campaign of civil resistance to anti-Catholic discrimination in housing, employment, policing, and electoral procedures. This reiterated the long-held British position, which had never before been fully acknowledged by successive Irish governments, that Northern Ireland will remain within the United Kingdom until a majority of voters in Northern Ireland decides otherwise. Following the election on 7 March 2007, the devolved government returned on 8 May 2007 with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fin deputy leader Martin McGuinness taking office as First Minister and deputy First Minister, respectively. TV cameras captured disturbing footage of RUC officers beating marchers with batons and chaos in the streets. In March 2018, The Sunday Times published its list of Best Places to Live in Britain, including the following places in Northern Ireland: Ballyhackamore near Belfast (overall best for Northern Ireland), Holywood, County Down, Newcastle, County Down, Portrush, County Antrim, Strangford, County Down.[140]. Since the end of the Troubles, Northern Ireland has witnessed rising numbers of tourists. It came into force on 3 May 1921,[54][55] partitioning Ireland and creating Northern Ireland. Variable:BRITISH. [95], Official voting figures, which reflect views on the "national question" along with issues of the candidate, geography, personal loyalty, and historic voting patterns, show 54% of Northern Ireland voters vote for unionist parties, 42% vote for nationalist parties, and 4% vote "other". The population of Northern Ireland on census day, 21 March 2021, was 1,903,175. The demographics have changed. [11][12][13][14] Northern Ireland shares an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. It was corrected on January 20, 2022, to read British rule.We apologize for the error. But in the north, their rebellion was regarded as a profound act of betrayal against Great Britain in its time of desperate need, and it heightened the resolve of protestantswho, of course, had been deeply loyal to the United Kingdom during World War Inot to be drawn into a united and independent Ireland. ), The General Post Office in Dublinthe headquarters of Irish nationalists of the Irish Republican Brotherhood during the 1916 Easter Risingwas gutted by British forces in a swift military response to the rebellion. [12][13][14], Owing in part to how the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland, came into being, there is no legally defined term to describe what Northern Ireland 'is'. [34] It was made up of several Gaelic kingdoms and territories and was part of the province of Ulster. The first British troops arrived on the 15th August. Alongside the violence, there was a political deadlock between the major political parties in Northern Ireland, including those who condemned the violence, over the future status of Northern Ireland and the form of government there should be within Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland - Minority Rights Group Some of the heirs to Ireland's violent traditions refused to give up their inheritance. The Slow Path to Police Reform in Northern Ireland In addition, the upper house of the UK parliament, the House of Lords, currently has some 25 appointed members from Northern Ireland. CCMS represents Trustees, schools For 30 years, Northern Ireland was scarred by a period of deadly sectarian violence known as the Troubles. This explosive era was fraught with car bombings, riots and revenge killings that ran from the late 1960s through the late 1990s. Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are by single transferable vote with five Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) elected from each of 18 parliamentary constituencies. One curious fact of the Northern Irish psyche that has been true for a long, long time, is that while they are intensely loyal to the crown and the union with Great Britain, theres also no love lost between the Northern Irish unionists and Great Britain: the Irish unionists always feel let down, always feel betrayed. Tensions flared into violence in the late 1960s,leaving some3,600 people dead and more than 30,000injured. [53] The Act received royal assent that December, becoming the Government of Ireland Act 1920. [146] The current population makes up 2.8% of the UK's population (67million) and 27% of the island of Ireland's population (7.03million).
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