Last week Cecilie gave us a lecture on the conflict in northern-Ireland. She had an interesting power-point, but it lasted a bit too long. I got a little off course, but tried to maintain attention.
The conflict in Ireland is mainly political and ethnic. One of the main reasons for the conflicts is bad treatment and huge differences in living and job opportunities.
Catholics were not treaded equal with the Protestants and a civil war broke out between the IRA and the Unionists. Maggie Thatcher benefitted from this and became the Prime Minister of the UK, to rule in Northern-Ireland. She captured IRA fighters so they would starve to death because they wanted to be regarded political prisoners when she just saw them as criminals.
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