Northern Ireland

Question 15.  Northern Ireland has had a long history of violence between the Catholics and the Protestants. Discuss the roots of the conflict and its effect on modern day Northern Ireland.
Key Concepts:  Seamus Heaney, Catholicism vs. Protestantism, Irish Republican Army (IRA),  U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” 
Literature:  Fine, Soft Day by James Forman

Resources

 

Call Numbers:  914.1, 941.5, REF 808.81 Poetry For Students,  REF 809.896 World Literature and Its Times

Keywords:  Northern Ireland history, IRA history

 
     
Websites

Northern Ireland:  The Search for Peace

CAIN: Key Events of the Northern Ireland Conflict

Conflict and Hope in Northern Ireland

BBC: Wars and Conflict: The Troubles

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