POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Dilemma, Decentralization, Elizabethan Religious Settlement
19 Aug 2016
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Both religious and political settlements are achieved early and they are durable. The issue of how britain will be governed is decided early when compared to its european counterparts. A challenge to the religious settlement because it is a catholic society. The irish free state 1921 1949 part of the british empire and it is not fully independent. All irish politicians had to swear an oath to the british monarch. They organize their political movement around republicanism separating from britain. Ireland is politically divided n/s along religious lines. Northern ireland remains part of gb and uk. Division of ireland unimportant issue in either irish or british politics from the moment they are divided until the 60s. The government (21-50s) was more concerned with consolidating the republic in the south. Catholics in the north (a minority in the north) but a majority in ireland, begin to mobilize politically. It is modeled on the civil rights movement.
