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Northern Ireland's "Troubles"

Politically still part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland's "Troubles" continue as a fight between the Protestants and the Catholics. Geographically, Northern Ireland is slightly larger than the state of Connecticut, and consists of 26 districts, "derived from the boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry and the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. Together, they are commonly referred to as Ulster, though the territory does not contain the entire ancient province of Ulster." (Brunner 877) Part of the contention deals with the so-called Six Counties, as the Protestants see it, and Nine counties (adding Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan from the ancient Ulster kingdom) that the Catholics want to preserve. Ulster (as we will refer to it from here on) was part of Catholic Ireland, until it was annexed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when after a series of revolts, Scots Presbyterians were settled there. After further revolts, Oliver Cromwell cruelly suppressed these uprising, and more and more Protestant settlers were literally imported to populate this northern part of Ireland. It was not until 1886, when William Gladstone proposed his Home Rule bill that North and South officially separated. Separation, however, did not end the struggles, especially after Ireland remained neutral during the First World War, which inflamed British passions, and, of course, the long struggle for Irish independence began, with the Sinn Fein movements, and the British attempt to maintain control. Even when the Irish Free State was declared, Ulster remained part of the United Kingdom, basically dominated by the Protestant English Parliament and its emissaries in Ulster. These Troubles (as they are euphemistically called) continue, even as there have been a number of agreements to cease hostilities and attempt to come to some agreement between the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority.

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