Partition of Ireland. Reasons and Results

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: The second half of the 19th century was an epoch marked by two political issues. The land question and the Home Rule movement. Most Irish Catholics were against the union of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Some of them tried to solve the problem in a constitutional way whereas others did not reject revolutionary methods. On the contrary citizens from the northeast of Ireland who were mainly Protestants endorsed the union with Great Britain. What has happened before and how did the situation develop?