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Yet, it was reported in 1847 that the starving Irish where willingly foregoing food and using English charity money to buy arms, and that continuing to give them relief would only "make the people think that the government should do everything-. Though this statement is most likely biased toward the Irish, you can see the great famine was indeed a multifaceted tribulation, with a broad spectrum of opinion on the issue. .
Few politicians in recent Irish history have divided opinion as much as Gerry Adams. To his followers, he is regarded as one of the best leaders the republican movement has ever had. To his fiercest unionist opponents, he is at best little more than an apologist for IRA gunmen, and at worst, a member of its highest command. In 1979, he said that the aims of republicans could not be achieved simply by military means. The statement was a prelude to what became known as the twin track strategy of "the armalite and the ballot box--pursuing republican goals through both violent and political means.
Today, the British desire peace. They are frightened by the animosity the Irish and several vocal officials have towards them and their presence in Ireland, as demonstrated in 1960 when the British army were called in to maintain order during a civil rights movement by the Catholics. They were quickly swept into the wave of terrorism that developed. .
Threatening animosity has developed over centuries of abuse and neglect of the Irish people by the British that obscures the peace processes, which the British long to achieve. Indeed, the British are reaping the seeds of violence they themselves have planted, an achievement nine centuries in the making. .
Time line of Irelands' History .
100BC-1998AD.
100 BC Arrival of the Gaels people.
200 AD Beginnings of High Kingship at Tara, Co Meath.
300 AD Ireland inhabited by tribes known as Scoti.
377-405 AD Naill of the Nine Hostages, High King.
