'"The Underlying Causes of the Conflict in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants." 

Well said Sean... where did they get this fellow from!... Hes another anglophile rolling out a few versions of facts and alot of approximations and stereotypes

Not only that, Diarmuid MacMurrough was the king of Leinster, not Ulster. Strongbow came in 1169, not 1179. Here they only took over leinster, and swore allegiance to the OConnor, High king of Ireland. This guy is a joke...

And the Tudors were confirmed in the title King of Ireland by His Holiness in a Bull in 1555. Ireland's friends in the Vatican strike again.

@@willleahy6958 Not quite. Under the Crown of Ireland Act of 1542, it was deemed that whoever was the King of England, would also be King of Ireland. Henry VIII was King of England so...However, due to the Reformation, the papacy required all Roman Catholic rulers to consider Protestant rulers as heretics. Europe's Catholic monarchs therefore, considered Ireland a feudal fief of the papacy. It could be granted to any Catholic sovereign who managed to secure the recently established Kingdom of Ireland from the control of its Protestant monarchs. Paul IV issued a papal bull in 1555, Ilius, per quem Reges regnant, recognising Philip and Mary as King and Queen of England and its dominions including Ireland.

@@eamoc A fair point, but even by the pre-Grotius state of international law at the time, it was more than open-handed of Paul IV to convey a whole country (or pre-country?) as a political convenience to a Spaniard.

It's actually called 'Éire' and in the English language 'Ireland'. The 'Republic of Ireland' is actually not the name of the state, just a description.

Have a look at your passport, and tell me where it states the Republic of Ireland.

Ulster is Irish Sovereignty President Michael D Higgins is president of all Ireland Constitutionally 🇮🇪. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO FOREIGN COUNTRY. IT MEANS WE DO NOR RECOGNISE BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY ON ANY PART OF IRELAND 🇮🇪..THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. IF YOUR BRITISH TRY NOT TO GET CONFUSED .???

@@psantini2968 we still Claim Ulster is Irish Sovereignty backstop fullstop protocol any way you want it

Ironic, is it not, that you’re denigrating “intellectuals” when you can’t even spell the damned term?

It is ten years old though

No it isn’t, in Northern Ireland it’s about remaining sovereign to the UK and not to be governed by a foreign legislator

@@ProfileP246 the English wish to be rid of you. They don’t give a flying fuçaca about NI.

Northern Ireland had achieved a balance of some kind - and then the Brexit referendum knocked it over.

@@erickleefeld4883 how did Brexit affect the situation in NI?

What knocked it over is the fact that Northern Ireland didn’t get Brexit, we’re still in EU trade agreements.

@@mirafloyd5756 The sea border introduced by the Conservative government.

no is SINNER FIEN and ERO BLOC

The fundamental causes of the seperate traditions in Northern Ireland came about primarily as a result of the Plantation of Ulster. In essence an invading foreign power, England and her colonies ( mainly Scotland and Wales) occupied the island of Ireland with an intent to clear parts of the island - the northern part of the island called Ulster - for settlement by Crown Loyalists. Attempts to clear and settle other parts of the island were made by the invaders with mixed results - but the Plantation of Ulster was the largest land clearing force and most effective. The parts of the island that the invaders wanted to clear and turn over to settlers were the most fertile and potentially profitable sections. However the Plantation of Ulster was going to cost a lot of money that the British Crown could not afford. To help with the cost, wealthy landowners and companies from the City of London were asked to provide some of the cash for this scheme. In exchange for their financial help, these companies and landowners were offered huge areas of land that had been taken from the local Irish population. The Mercers’ Company, a rich London merchant company, received up to 21600 acres of land. From their headquarters at Movanagher Bawn they controlled a lot of the newly created County Londonderry. So, in summary. Before the Plantation of Ulster you had the native Irish inhabit the island - these were Irish speaking, and the religion they identified with was Roman Catholicism. This time period was the early decades of the 1600 and it was post Reformation in England which had for the majority of Crown subjests had now switched to the protestant denominations of Church or England, and later Church of Scotland. The native Irish Catholics were forcefully cleared off their land and dispatched to poorer rocky parts of the west of Ireland. So now, you had a new landlord class in Ulster, Loyal to the Crown and the religion they identified with was Protestantism. This was a dicothomy that created the friction between these two traditions for almost another four hundred years. Being a Catholic in Northern Ireland for the most part meant that you were a Nationalist and your wish would be for the 'loyalist planters' to pack up and go back to where they came from. Being a Loyalist meant that you were both loyal to the Crown and identified with the Protestant religion in addition to making sure you held the power and control of the native Irish to the degree they usurped what they could, manipulated electoral boundaries, and in general made life as difficult as possible for native Irish citizens who lived in Northern Ireland. Hope that explains things a little better as to why there are - and remains the case today - of two very disctinct and opposite traditions in Northen Ireland.

@@Dechieftian Scotland was never a colony of England, we were not conquered unlike Ireland & Wales. We had two short periods of occupation that didn't include all of Scotland under Edward the 1st & Cromwell. The key problem for Scots was because the Scottish king Malcolm Canmore married his daughter into the Norman dynasty in England & that ensured the Normans had lands on both countries. You are however, completely wrong to state that Scotland was a colony of England, it just doesn't stand up to historical facts. We had our own distinct law, our own separate education system & our own distinct reformation the Presbyterian church, or Calvinist well before political union in 1707. We were never an oppressed people & that is one reason that the Irish & Scottish political status has always been so different.

An important topic, for sure, as it is still going on today. The binary perspective "Catholic-Protestant" is an oversimplification, though, as English settlers (not protestant before Luther's reformation in 1517) came in and owned land in Northern Ireland as early as 1169 when Henry II assumed rule, thus starting an 800-year British rule, which was only slightly lessened by the Act of Union in 1801.

describe "substantial"? The English population in Ireland is very small. How can you say that England "havnt murdered 90% of the natives"? England has murdered or send abroad, more Irish than are living today. Cromwell had a scorched earth policy. Before An Gorta Mór the Irish population was well over 8 million. After ten years Ireland had lost at least two million. England has a cheek to look at the US and point fingers.

@@cooldaddy2877 Well said.

@Charlie@78 sorry, who is the Yank? Me?

@Charlie@78 Well Sir, you assume wrong.

@@cooldaddy2877, there are sources that have the pop. of Ireland at around 10-11 million. The simple fact is that we don't know the numbers... only that millions died and millions were forced to emigrate.

The Northern state was too big. The loyalists got too greedy. Fermanagh/Tyrone, Derry city, South Armagh, South Down should have always been in the Republic.

You have no idea what your talking about I live in the Republic there is absolutely no problem with religion here it's just the northern Ireland where the English took over

Actually a great deal of the Protestant population in the Republic left in the years after the Great War.

@@graydomn They were were already leaving in great numbers from the time of the disestablishment of the Church of England/Ireland

ITS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION ITS ABOUT IMPERIALISM CLAIMING IRISH LAND

What do you expect? Him to go into detail about Cromwell and his gruesome exploits ? What would be the point?

How many counties in Ulster?

@@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329 Geez, just use your fingers (as the actress said to the bishop)

@@asanulsterman1025 gerrymandered ulster was because they knew they would not have a unionist majority...a protestant state for protestant people but thankfully those days are long gone

@@jackietreehorn5561 Geez, what are you wittering on about dear?

@@asanulsterman1025 a silly little primate you are

😆who got up your backside.....I found it an interesting synopsis

It's deeper than that. First you have to understand what a PhD is. It is a student which has the favor of thier instructor, who are given funds to promote the agendas of thier university. Typically it means the University helping the student publish a book supporting the instructors stance on an issue. Remember, it is the winners who wrote history, not the murdered. There are places in the UK that if you went to a Catholic school, the best job you can get is to be a truck driver. Vice versa, in Catholic areas, protestants are still called foreigners. Unfortunately, the hate is still real, and these universities do thier part to keep it going.

It’s all about Land and identity.The English occupation of Ireland and the uneven and unfair distribution of Land.

How many wars in Europe besides WW1 and WW2. ????

Sovereignty is the.problem Ulster is Irish Sovereignty backstop fullstop Nothing.else will.suffice.

The Northern Ireland conflict has nothing to do with religion.

Do you not know the history???? You idiot