Comparison of Catholic and Protestant Relations

. The temptation to fit things in a neat, and orderly way is very strong.
             To illustrate the clash between religions, one must go back to when Norman English first made contact with the Irish in the early centuries of this millennium, and ever since then there has been a mutual sense of doubt of each other's intentions(Baresly: 1972). While maintaining a relatively peaceful isolated relationship during that time, the real catalyst of tensions occurred in the seventeenth century when English and Scottish settlers began emigrating to relatively under populated Ulster, in Northern Ireland. There was a concurrent situation of overpopulation in Scotland, and sending Scottish labour to cultivate Ulster was an ideal solution (Foster: 1988).
             The Gaelic clans of Northern Ireland were quickly suppressed which led to more emigration to central and west Ulster. The peak of this influx from the British Island didn't occur until well into the seventeenth century (Foster: 1988). These settlers were known as Anglo-Irish, and Ulster Scots. They wer
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