Northern Ireland is divided on the question of whether past wrongs should be forgiven or atoned for. These five books help to explain why
was created in 1921. Its six counties remained in the United Kingdom when the rest of Ireland became independent. For decades its Protestant majority dominated Northern Ireland’s politics and discriminated against their Catholic neighbours. After tensions rose in the 1960s, the “Troubles” began in 1969.
A century ago a 500km boundary was cut across the island of Ireland as 26 of its counties formed the new Irish Free State. Six stayed in the United Kingdom. Diarmaid Ferriter writes in his history of that line that politicians on both sides responded to it with dishonesty. It enabled Ireland’s leaders to fashion their new state using a Gaelic, Catholic ethos without having to worry about northern Protestants.
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