or domestic matters, while still giving the United Kingdom power over the territory of Ireland. Many Protestants felt that this would have led to a union with the Catholics and opposed the idea (UUP, 2002).
             1921 brought the next level of conflict to Ireland. At this time a partition was formed between the southern part of Ireland, which became known as the Irish Free State, and Northern Ireland. This only increased the already huge conflict between the two main religions, Catholicism and Protestantism. Since Catholics made up a very small minority, representing only about one-third of the population in Northern Ireland, they were strongly discriminated against and felt severely suppressed (Darby, 1995).
             The dispute was intensified even fu
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