Chapter 27 Northern Ireland Flashcards
What was the Northern Ireland parliament?
Stormont
Which party dominated the stormont?
The Ulster Unionist Party
Who led the Ulster Unionist Party?
James Craig
What was the Northern Ireland police force?
The RUC
The Royal Ulster Constabulary
What was gerrymandering?
The deliberate organisation of constituencies to give unionists control over the local gov
In way ways was sectarianism shown through housing and employment?
- Protestants skipped Catholics in the queue for council housing
- Protestants were more likely to get a job than Catholics so there was a high rate of unemployment among catholic men
What was Northern Ireland like during WW2?
- the ports of Derry and Belfast were important points on the route which supplied Britain with food from America
- the Harland&Wolff shipyard in Belfast built ships for the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
- Luftwaffe bombed Belfast several times during the war
- tens of thousand of American soldiers were based in Northern Ireland in preparation for the Allied invasion of Northern Europe
Who introduced the welfare state?
The Labour Party after they were elected into gov after WW2
What was the welfare state?
It guaranteed the right to free health care and free education
Why was Captain Terence O’Neill forced to resign?
After unionists, led by reverend Ian Paisley, reacted with fury to the meeting he was having with the leaders of the ROI
What was the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA)?
An organisation set up to fight for the civil rights of Catholics
Who were the leading figures of NICRA?
Gerry Fitt
John Hume
Bernadette Devlin
Who were the B-specials?
A part time police force in Northern Ireland
Which two unionists paramilitary groups started a violent campaign against nationalists?
The Ulster Volunteer Force
The Ulster Defence Association
When did the first British troops arrive?
In 1969
