BORDERLANDS
PROJECT 2023
THE
TROUBLES
SESSION
4
A
SIMULATION GAME
STEP 1 DIVIDING THE ROOM INTO THE 4 PROVINCES AND EACH
PERSON IS GIVEN A DIFFERENT COLOUR BIB ACCORDING TO THEIR RELIGION
A white ONE FOR
THE PROTESTANT
A pink ONE FOR THE
CATHOLICS
Use paper sheets of colours and clothes pins to hang on
students
Distribution of students
Ulster : 4 protestants out of 5 students
Munster : 2 out of 5
Leinster 2 out of 5
Connacht 1 out of 5
SO READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT AND DECIDE WHICH PROFESSION
YOU WOULD HAVE
WE ARE IN NORTHERN IRELAND AFTER THE PARTITION
Catholic ownership of land was minimal.Most of the lands thus was owned by
protestants .. By law Catholics were prohibited from holding leases ( un bail =
titre d’exploitation de la terre) in excess of thirty-one years or for lives,
Catholics were deprived of the vote between 1728 and 1793. Yet there was an
active Catholic lobby that contested many anti-Catholic measures in the Irish
Parliament.
Protestant dominance was in place by the 1690s in towns with the guilds (that is an association of merchants who
control who has the job or not and who is allowed to run a business or
not) becoming Protestant dominated.
In Dublin at mid-century Catholics were to the fore as bakers, distillers,
brewers, carpenters, grocers, skinners, tanners, woolen drapers, and
distillers. By contrast, their representation in the roles of apothecary,
cooper, goldsmith, butcher, shoemaker, surgeon, and physician was moderate or
low. With the exception of Galway, banking continued largely in Protestant
hands until the early nineteenth century.
Catholics were still excluded from key administrative offices in Dublin and
other cities such
CHOOSE A PROFESSION
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CATHOLICS
- scavengers ( fouilleur de
poubelles)
rag pickers (chiffoniers)
, sweepers ( balayeurs)
casual porters,
boot blacks ( cireurs de
chuassures)
, newspaper sellers,
day labourers,
seasonal farm workers,
scullery maids = domestics
domestic servant.
Craftsmen ( artisans)
bakers,
distillers
brewers
carpenters
grocers ( épiciers)
skinners,
tanners,
woolen drapers, and distiller
|
PROTESTANTS
tradesmen,
junior bank clerks (employés de
bureau)
book keepers
(des comptables)
merchants
shopkeepers who owned their
shops
teachers
doctors
bankers
insurance brokers
army officer
navy officer
barrister
advocate
|
STEP 2 HOW DO YOU REACT IN FRONT
OF THIS SITUATION
CATHOLICS?HOW DO YOU FEEL ? What would you say to defend your
position ? what would you do to
protest ?
PROTESTANTS
QUESTION : ARE YOU HAPPY with
the ANGLO IRISH ACT and partition of
Ireland, ?why OR WHY NOT ?
STEP 3 THE CATHOLICS
1. Explain
the origin of the IRA
2. Tell
us why you decided to join
3. Tell
us if the population supports you
IT IS NOW 1959 YOU ARE A YOUNG MALE CATHOLIC IN NORTHERN
IRELAND . YOU HAVE DECIDED TO JOIN THE IRA, a terrorist organisation mainly
catholics created in 1919. seeking the establishment of a republic, the
end of British rule in Northern ireland and the reunification of ireland.
SOME EXPLANATIONS ABOUT THE IRA
During
the Anglo-Irish War (Irish War of Independence, 1919–21) the IRA, under the
leadership of Michael Collins, employed guerrilla tactics—including
ambushes, raids, and sabotage—to force the British government to negotiate
which led to the Anglo Irish treaty in 1921. These terms, however, proved
unacceptable to a substantial number of IRA members. The organization
consequently split into two factions, one (under Collins’s leadership)
supporting the treaty and the other (under Eamon de Valera) opposing it. The former group became
the core of the official Irish Free State Army, and the latter group, known as
“Irregulars,” began to organize armed resistance against the new independent
government.
The
ensuing Irish civil war (1922–23) ended with the capitulation
of the Irregulars; however, they neither surrendered their arms nor disbanded
and formed the core of the actual IRA.
After
the withdrawal of Ireland from the British Commonwealth in 1949, the IRA turned its attention
to agitating for the unification of the predominantly Roman Catholic Irish
republic with predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland. Sporadic incidents
occurred during the 1950s and early ’60s, but lack of active support by
Catholics in Northern Ireland rendered such efforts futile.
STEP 3 the protestants AND THEN
THIS HAPPENED
The battle of the
bogside ( 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCjNPgNu42g&ab_channel=BritishPath%C3%A9
1.Guess what the
nationality of the reporter is ?
2. what is your
reaction ? what can you say to the catholics ?
3. what do you want the
British government to do ?
WHAT IS THE REACTION OF
THE POPULATION ? of the catholics ? of the protestants ?
STEP 8 A BIT
OF A RECAP
https://learningapps.org/display?v=pw0pv0pha20
STEP 9 AND
THEN WHAT IS THAT ?
THEN WATCH AND ANSWER
THE QUIZ
A
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES - Google Forms
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