Civil rights in Ireland

Civil rights I'm going to present you the civil rights movements that appeared in Ireland in the 1960s. These movements have emerged to fight inequality that divided the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland. Firstly, in 1963, a moderate unionist, Terence O'Neill, became Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. He expressed a desire to improve community relations in Northern Ireland and to create a better rapport with the government in Dublin, hoping this would resolve the sense of alienation felt by Catholics. However, reforms were too slow in coming for the minority Catholic population (and in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), O'Neill also met with opposition from William Craig and Brian Faulkner). Then, in 1967, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was created. This association campaigned for civil rights for the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland (during the late 1960s and early 1970s). (The civil rights...