The Catholic Experience in Northern Ireland

In the sixties, there is th huge wave of political activism in northern ireland. Many activists were actually inspired by the civil rights movement in 19 sixties america. This ideological waking up moment happened to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the 19 16 easter rising. Now things are about to start heating up and moving very quickly,. so i want to hit the pause button and take a brief moment to clearly define some of the political terminology that we're oing to be using for the big players in the troubles. A term you'll here allot is irish republican. But that's not what we're talking about here at all. The irish republican movement, quite literally