These slides aims to explain the causes of Northern Ireland Conflict between the Protestants and Catholics found in Chapter 4 in the Social Studies textbook for Secondary 3.

1. Chapter
4
Causes of the
Northern Ireland Conflict

2. 4
Causes
of
Conflict
Deep Irish Hatred
for the British
Religious
Differences
Employment
Opportunities
Allocation of
Public Housing

3. Deep Irish Hatred
for the British
1

4. English invaded Ireland since
th
12
century

5. Brought settlers
from Scotland and
England who were
Protestants to settle
down
Occupied the
northern part of the
island

6. Chased the Irish
people, who were
Catholics, further
South where the land
was less fertile
Introduced laws which
limited the poorer Irish
from owning
properties, lands,
joining the army and
religious restrictions

7. 1690
Battle of the Boyne

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Catholics and Protestants saw each other as
enemies since historical times.

9. Constant attempts by the Catholics to demand
for independence for Ireland.

10. Religious
Differences
2

11. Protestants lived mainly in the Northern part of Ireland.
Originally
Catholics lived mainly in the Southern part of Ireland.

12. Ireland became independent.

13. However, the Northern part became Northern Ireland

14. and remained as part of United Kingdom.

15. Irish in Northern Ireland
1. saw themselves as Catholics
2. wanted Northern Ireland to have a union with Ireland.

16. Protestants preferred Northern Ireland to remain
within United Kingdom.

17. For they fear of being a
religious minority in a united
Ireland.

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Catholics and Protestants are divided and cannot see
themselves as part of the same country.

19. Employment
Opportunities
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20. Catholics were as qualified as Protestants
but had less employment opportunities.

21. Catholics were
times more likely to be jobless than Protestants.

22. Most business owners were
Protestants.
Many government-controlled jobs
and private companies preferred to
employ Protestants.

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Catholics felt discriminated.
Well-paid jobs were given to Protestants.

24. Catholics remained poorer.

25. Violence could easily occur when the Catholics felt
that they were disadvantaged.

26. Allocation of
Public Housing
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27. Public housing paid by government given mostly to
Protestants.

28. %
%
of public housing given to
Protestants
of population were
Protestants.

29. Catholics found their
applications were delayed and
those who got the houses had
poorer facilities.

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Catholics became frustrated and had to wait longer
to get houses.

31. Catholics realised that they did not have
equal rights to get public housing.

32. Catholics felt unfair which
caused them to turn to
violence.

33. Peaceful means such as protest marches and debates in Parliament had
failed to give them the equal rights to housing