Northern Ireland And Republic of Ireland - glance Into The History
Written by Andrew McGregor   
Saturday, 10 April 2010 07:12
Seventeenth century was the period of invasion, plundering and insulting incidents for the people of Ireland which were so drastic in nature. Everyone in the Irish soil will tell such stories about the true past of Ireland that will make our hairs stand on end. Many have died and many have survived this brutal period just long enough to tell the tale to their children and grandchildren. The small groups of rebels in the Irish lands were brutally suppressed by forcing them to follow the ideals of their religion and culture; this was a dark period in the Irish history.
by AndrewMcGregor


Seventeenth century was the period of invasion, plundering and insulting incidents for the people of Ireland which were so drastic in nature. Everyone in the Irish soil will tell such stories about the true past of Ireland that will make our hairs stand on end. Many have died and many have survived this brutal period just long enough to tell the tale to their children and grandchildren. The small groups of rebels in the Irish lands were brutally suppressed by forcing them to follow the ideals of their religion and culture; this was a dark period in the Irish history.

The inception of the Act of Union between the people of Ireland and England, after the memorable seventeenth century, brought a hopeful improvement in the situations at hand. However, all hopes were quelled by the internal differences between the northern and southern regions of Ireland. All these events had only one reason which was differences in the principles of the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland.

When the northern part of Ireland prospered immensely with the growth in industrial and manufacturing sectors, the uneven regions of the southern regions prevented optimistic growth in their lives, forcing them to resume their past again. Britain was blamed for all these troubles and they were forced into sending troops to solve these matters at hand. Both the regions suffered again under this newly renewed fight for freedom and prosperity and it brought about the permanent division of the northern and southern regions.

During this period, the Catholics wanted complete freedom and this created a much bigger political problem in Ireland for almost four decades. The solution which was chosen for this problem was the inception of the Government of Ireland act in the year 1920, which however did not help the situation much. Guerrilla warfare methods were used by the Irish Republican Army against the troops of British soldiers and this brought about the death of countless Englishmen.

In the year 1921, however, the legendary treaty of peace was signed between the different groups of Ireland. The result was that Northern Ireland got hold of six counties while twenty three Southern counties and three counties from Ulster were brought under the region of southern Ireland. Following these turn of events, the independent republic of Ireland was formed and things seemed to have come into control after this for some time.

However, fate played its turn a little later, from 1960 to 1990, which brought the old ways of violence back into play. Fueled by the Catholics and the Protestants in the land, armed attacks by the Independent Republican Army and the Protestant paramilitary forces were raging on, forcing the British to intervene. Only after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement between the Irish Prime ministers and the British and the cease fire from the IRA, peace started to reign on the lands of Ireland. The most recent turn of events is the handing over of all powers by the British back to Ireland, in 2010, which has left only the echoes of the past to resound once in a while.

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