LESSON TERM EURO FRIDAY THE 20 TH OF MARCH

 

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

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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