The Good Friday Agreement

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independence from Britain and their reasoning was give us back our independence and we’ll stop the violence. They targeted Nationalist areas for shootings and bombings but this was with a difference. This was the Omagh Bombing that took place in August 1998. The difference with this and what Republican violence is usually about - targeting Nationalist areas - is that the majority of the people injured or killed were Republicans. I chose not to say Catholic because being Catholic doesn’t necessarily mean that you are a Republican.

The backlash against Republican violence is Loyalist violence. They believe they must also fight to keep Northern Ireland British and source 5A shows a diary of Loyalist events and attacks from October 1998 to June 1999. A running theme is the fact that these attacks seem to be targeted at one person at a time. For example ‘May 12:A 39-year-old Catholic workman from Magherafelt, Co Derry, survives murder attempt’ and ‘March 16:The Red Hand ...

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in London. The ‘Good Friday Agreement’ is the latest attempt to solve the problems and to try and get the peace process back on track.

Looking at the problems all the threats seem as big as the other but what I think is a big threat to the peace process is the social issues. Though saying that, religion also comes into it and some might say that religion is the reason for the social issues, but you could relate the social issues because of differences to racial issues because if black and white people can get along to a point then there is no reason why Catholics and Protestants can get along. I believe that the threat is not the religious problems as it is beyond that because the ...

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