Religious problems????? Ireland?

Question

is there any religious problems in Ireland?????????????????????????????????...

Answer 1

Religious issues are personal.

The "Troubles" you're referring to in Ireland are political and refer back several hundred years ago to what many today would consider English terrorism against the Irish residents. From the 1300s, England attempted to kill off the native Celts of Ireland, failing that, they took the residents as slaves on their own land.

All came to a head in the mid-1800s when British landlords took advantage of a potato blight which killed off all the potato crops in Ireland for two years. Although Ireland had plenty of other food - wheat, oats, cattle, pigs, sheep, etc., Britain refused to allow the Irish who raised this food to eat any of it. In fact, Britain not only shipped tons of foodstuffs out of Ireland while entire villages starved in the streets, the British government even taxed and held up any charity which was attempted to be supplied by America and others. British newspapers encouraged the starving and publicly urged the entire eradication of the Irish "pestilence."

Based on that violent history of political and actual genocide, Ireland launched a rebellion (like America's revolution of 1776) to get rid of the British pestilence on the Monday following Easter 1916. In 1922, Ireland finally got free of the British oppressors.

The issues, from 1300 to today are political, not religious. They get a religious label by the liberal media because most Irish Republicans are Catholic (though not all) and most loyalists (so called because they wish to remain loyal to their poorer British neighbors) are protestant (but not all). Historically, the natives were Catholic until English kings began shipping protestant Englanders to Ireland to subjugate the legal residents, so a generalization of protestant invader versus Catholic legal resident became commonly applied.

Politics and British international terrorism were the real bases for the conflict.

Answer 2

I think there are religious problems in most countries...there used to be a big problem between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland but its not as bad anymore. there are a few problems around the time of the Orange parade in n.ireland but the rest of the year is pretty calm

Answer 3

I'm living there, and there are none in the Republic, and everybody knows about Northern Ireland, where religion is used to keep a basically tribal conflict going. Most of the shooting has stopped, the shouting is still going on.