errorist organizations in the world. Children in Northern Ireland are grown up with violence all around them, and most of them are handling guns by mid-teens. In the sixteenth century, the English King Henry VIII had a argument with the Catholic Church, so he made the Anglican Church, The Church of England, and made himself head of it. He was presented with a problem when he did this. He wanted to stay in control of Ireland but it was largely Catholic. He sent many of his noblemen there to settle. They took the best lands away from the native Irish and tried to force the Irish to turn to the Protestant Religion. Ireland was forced to join the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1801. But the English didn’t spend enough time looking after their Irish lands, and soon a terrible famine came upon them in 1845. Many Irish moved to the USA where a secret society was founded to fight for Ireland’s independence, thus the IRA was formed. Groups of them came back to Europe and bombed the English in Ireland and London. The IRA’s objectives are to make the whole of Ireland a completely independent unit.In 1916 a few Irish Republicans gained control of the post office and several other important buildings in the city of Dublin, which is the capital of Ireland. This rising was defeated, and the Republicans were executed. In 1922, after many years of struggle and three years of civil war, a part of Ireland was declared independent. But then conflict was not over; six counties were still in British control. These were located in Northern Ireland.(Terrorism, 45)The IRA was popular and effective at first but after southern Ireland was made independent, its fortunes turned. After Eamon De Valera, a former IRA supporter, took over the Free State government in 1932. The IRA weakened from internal disagreements and conflict and by a general loss of popular support . By the attainment of republican objectives in 1949, and by government measu...
