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Gaelic lords fled Ulster (Northern part of Ireland) in 1607. Left the area open for settlement of Scottish Presbyterians and English Protestants.
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Deepening of Catholicism and Irish Identity, after the famine. Made Northerners more suspicious of Southerners.
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Easter Rebels (Catholic Nationalists) rose up against British rule in Dublin. Seen as national heroes in the south, but betrayers in the north.
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Irish nationalists wanted Independence
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Quasi-autonomous state, still under British Empire but not part of GB
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Irish Border Commission included Catholic-majority areas in NI, and they were discriminated against by the Ulster Unionist Party
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Period of violence between unionists and nationalists, involved Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces
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Decided to share power and stop fighting
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Power sharing argument between 2 governing parties, parliament dissolved.
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Britain left EU, so Ireland is EU but Northern Ireland is not anymore. Affects free movement between the two and renewed the sense of betrayal that GB has betrayed NI