New Activity
Play Fill in the Blanks Game
1 . The population of Northern Ireland is composed of ____________________ and ____________________ .
2 . The protestant population calls its country ____________________ instead of Northern Ireland . They do not feel ____________________ . Some of them would call themselves British .
3 . The Catholic community feels more ____________________ than British .
4 . The majority of the population in the Republic of Ireland is ____________________ .
5 . Independence was finally conceded to Ireland in ____________________ . The Irish accepted that ____________________ of the nine counties of Ulster were part of England because ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ .
6 . ____________________ ____________________ could govern themselves , but a protestant oligarchy took control of the country . Local power concentrated in ____________________ , Northern Ireland .
7 . Sectarian violence strated in Northern Ireland because the ____________________ excluded ____________________ .
8 . In 1972 , Bloody Sunday : The British troops killed ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ , but there was not any ____________________ for the perpetrators .
9 . The hostility of the authorities against the ____________________ was confirmed . The Provos , which was the name of the new IRA at the time , took advantage of that incident .
10 . London suspended the Stromont government in Northern Ireland and decided to rule directly . This was a victory for the catholics , since they were no longer governed by ____________________ ____________________ who had been in power after the ____________________ of Ireland .
11 . 1972 was a deadly year in Nortern Ireland because about ____________________ ____________________ people were killed due to sectarian violence .
12 . In this decade , the iRA trasformed itself into a sofisticades ____________________ ____________________ .
13 . They established their political wing , ____________________ ____________________ , whose major goal was a ____________________ ____________________ .
14 . The majority of the catholic population was not in agreement with the ciolent ____________________ of the ____________________ . They belonged to the ____________________ party .
15 . In 1985 , the ____________________ - ____________________ ____________________ sent a message to the two sides involved : only if a majority of the population of Northern Ireland wished to become part of a united Ireland , London and Dublin governments woulds support the initiative .