[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

No offense here Jaxie but I'm truly shocked everytime a British person makes a comment like that The lack of understanding you seem to have about North/South Ireland is baffling. You know the North and South isn't a religious feud. We weren't fighting between eachother to convert eachother or whatever. The reason why so many Protestants in Northern ireland want to stay within the UK is because they were mostly originally from there as that's the most prominent religion in Britain and the reason why most nationalists are catholic is because they were probably mostly originally irish as that was the most prominent religion in Ireland.

have no doubt that Ireland splitting in two and the IRA forming and all the troubles up there, is because Britain invaded our country and when they decided to give it back eventually, split it in two for some reason......it almost seems like it's been pawned off to Irish fighting amongst eachother in some religious war instead of what it actually was, Nationalists wanting Ireland to be one again and Unionists wanting to be British (because they mostly were from Britain anyway originally)

All religion had to do with it really was a way of identifying where your allegiances lay (ie Irish(catholic) V's British(Protestant)

I have friends in both areas. I was wondering if the changing of attitudes continues 'change' of itself might make people start to come together one day. I know it's a loyalist and republican issue rather than a religious one though some superstition doesn't seem to have helped or has been used an excuse.

Though I think the British are at least partially ignorant about the problems as I think a lot was withheld through reporting restrictions etc.