Parties of Northern Ireland
What are the main political groupings in Northern Ireland? What accounts for the differences between them?The conflict in Northern Ireland date back to the British conquest of Ireland in the 12th century. The current troubles have their roots in the nationalist uprising in 1916, which was brutally suppressed by the British Army. Six years later, in 1922, after a guerrilla war, most of Ireland won its independence. The six North-Eastern counties, sometimes called Ulster, with a Protestant majority, remained to the United Kingdom and had a Protestant dominated parliament, called the Stormont. There is a central constitutional problem, the “Northern Irish problem�, which is not only one problem, but also a tangle of interrelated problems. What should be the political context for the people of Northern Ireland? Should it be integrated within Britain or a united Ireland or independent? There are problems of cultural identity and of religious difference. These may be the dominating ones, because the Northern Irish parties are founded
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Approximate Word count = 703
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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