as the key driving force in the Civil Rights movement of Northern Ireland. In areas of occupation opportunities, employment, policing, housing and segregation as a whole is influenced by whether you are Catholic or Protestant. Let’s begin with the subject of occupation opportunity and employment. Well-educated Catholics do not seem to suffer any occupational disadvantages when compared to well-educated Protestants. However, the Catholic people are restricted to servicing their own community most of the time causing them to settle for the less gratifying careers than the Protestants. Most Catholics are forced to settle for a more “manual” occupation while the “squares” of the Protestants go into more professional, broader areas of employment. “Catholics are caught in a cycle in which lower occupational status leads to lower educational attainment which leads to lower occupational status and so on”(Boyle, 1976, p99). The observation by Boyle just goes to show that the “triangles” of the Catholic people are stuck in a cycle that keeps them “triangles” from generation to generation. Being in a cycle such as this that keeps the Catholics “triangular” seems to be unbreakable especially when the society the live in try Dean 4to keep them “triangular”. All of society in Northern Ireland influences the downfall of the Catholics, even the police. The concept of looking down on someone because the are somewhat “less” than you seems unjustifiable, especially when we look at it from the viewpoint of Flatland.What I mean by this is that the soldiers in Flatland are triangular such as the lower class. So can we compare the soldiers in Flatland to the police of Northern Ireland and the Catholics to the “triangular “ lower class? If so the why do those who are considered to be “triangular” so prejudiced against others ...
