Irish activists of the 'Troubles'

[Urbanguerrilla]

Two excellent documentaries from Irish language station TG4, one of the foremost nationalist political figures of the Troubles Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey.

Bernadette

And from the series Mna an IRA, SF executive member and former IRA activist Martina Anderson discusses her life in the IRA.

Martina Anderson

 

[Swagger]

Yet Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, and taxes are still levied on both their respective incomes by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs. In short, they've achieved nothing.

 

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Yet Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, and taxes are still levied on both their respective incomes by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs. In short, they've achieved nothing.

You are assuming the only intention was a Nationalist one - Union with Ireland. That was not so. It began as civil rights marches which were met with violence. At that time most Catholics did not even have the vote.

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In a conscious imitation of tactics used by the American Civil Rights Movement,[11] and modelled somewhat on the National Council for Civil Liberties, the new organisation held marches, pickets, sit-ins and protests to pressure the Government of Northern Ireland to grant these demands. NICRA had five main demands:

one man, one vote which meant extension of the local government franchise from ratepayers to all those over 21
an end to gerrymandering which meant Unionists were elected even in districts with Catholic majorities
an end to discrimination in housing
an end to discrimination in jobs
the disbandment of the B-Specials, the Ulster Special Constabulary, which many viewed as sectarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Civil_Rights_Association

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

Yet Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, and taxes are still levied on both their respective incomes by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs. In short, they've achieved nothing.

You are assuming the only intention was a Nationalist one - Union with Ireland. That was not so. It began as civil rights marches which were met with violence. At that time most Catholics did not even have the vote.

here

In a conscious imitation of tactics used by the American Civil Rights Movement,[11] and modelled somewhat on the National Council for Civil Liberties, the new organisation held marches, pickets, sit-ins and protests to pressure the Government of Northern Ireland to grant these demands. NICRA had five main demands:

one man, one vote which meant extension of the local government franchise from ratepayers to all those over 21
an end to gerrymandering which meant Unionists were elected even in districts with Catholic majorities
an end to discrimination in housing
an end to discrimination in jobs
the disbandment of the B-Specials, the Ulster Special Constabulary, which many viewed as sectarian.

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another program in the same series:

Pamela Kane