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Shannon and Christine were at an 18th birthday party in Northern Ireland. It was nearly 3 am and time to go home, anyone would think. Instead they were invited to a secret political meeting by a young Irish man named Connor. The area they were visiting was a hotbed of unrest as the Irish fought and even waged war against the British government.1 They wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the Republic of Ireland in the south.
The first thing we did after leaving the birthday party was to pick up chicken burgers； about 20 of them. It seems that even political rebels2 need to eat fast food in the early hours of the morning！ Then we headed off in a car. We were told to lie down in the back. I thought it might be because we were driving through a dangerous area, but when we got there Connor told me that the reason was in fact because he did not want us to see where we were going—for our own sake！ Might we be caught and interrogated3 by the police? That thought was scary. We arrived at a house on the outskirts of town； it was not a farm but it backed onto a field.4
We entered the house, without knocking, with the burgers. There were about ten young men in the house already. Connor told them not to worry about us girls as we were travellers and on “their” side, and they seemed quite pleased about that. Maybe they thought it was good to have young people from around the world in support of their cause5. They then spoke for hours about various locations, and people, and who would meet where, and who would dismantle6 something, and who would talk to someone, and so it went on. The Irish accent is very strong and we struggled to understand what they said anyhow.
One young man there seemed argumentative and angry, even with these people who were his friends and allies.7 Later Connor told us that the young man’s brother had been imprisoned for life for being part of the Irish Republican Army （IRA） 8. Connor told us that he is part of Sinn Féin9 which means “we ourselves”in the old Irish language. These words promote the idea that Ireland should have self-determination, rather than being part of a political union with Great Britain, under London’s Westminster Parliament10. Sinn Féin was linked to the IRA. The IRA was involved in many acts of violence, killings and bombings as they fought for Irish independence.
The conflict and war in Ireland is often described as a war between Protestants and Catholics.11 These are two different Christian institutions or belief systems. Many people therefore imagine that the war was a religious war. But in fact the conflict has nothing to do with religion； their religions are just the way that the two groups have identified culturally, especially in the past. A thousand years ago it was mostly Celtic Irish people who spoke the Gaelic language in Ireland but,12 over the centuries, waves of people came from Scotland and England to settle in Ireland. Between 1534 and 1603, tens of thousands of people were sent by the British government as part of their plan to take over Ireland by populating the country with people who were British subjects.13 By different means they took the land and established settlements or strongholds, such as large farms, many known as plantations,14 and in this way ruled over large areas. Because England and Scotland were Protestant countries, most of these new settlers and landowners were Protestants while the original Irish inhabitants15 remained Catholic. The conflict has nothing to do with religion but rather is about “original ownership” of land.
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