The Challenge in Northern Ireland 1960 - 1999
The Challenge in Northern Ireland
1960 - 1999
GCSE History Revision Notes
By Dane O’ Neill
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Contents
1.1 - Religious divisions in Ireland: Origins of the Troubles 7
The Government of Ireland Act, (1920) 7
1.3 - Tensions between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland: the Orange Order 7
1.4 - Political and religious inequality in Northern Ireland: discrimination against Catholics 8
Inequality in local government 8
Inequality under the law: the RUC 8
Inequality under the law: the B-Specials 8
Discrimination in Social Welfare 9
1.5 - Prime Minister Terence O’Neill 9
Cooperation between North and South 9
1.6 - Terence O’ Neill: Plans for Reform 9
Co-operation with Catholics: 9
Cooperation with the South: 9
1.7 - O’Neill: Reforms met with failures and unpopularity 10
Anger among the Protestant/Unionist community 10
Dissatisfaction among Catholic Civil Rights activists 10
1.8 - University of Ulster, Coleraine, 1968 10
1.9 - Civil Rights Movements, Ireland in the 1960s 10
1.11 - Topic Summary: inequalities leading to the Troubles, 1969 11
2.1 - Civil Rights Marches, 1968-69 Civil Rights Movements, Ireland in the 1960s 12