1. DIVIDED
COUNTRIES
COUNTRIES

2. CONFLICT IN MULTI-
ETHNIC SOCIETIES:
NORTHERN IRELAND

3. Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland

4. HISTORY OF IRELAND
Catholicism and Protestantism:
– Before 16th Century, Christianity =
Roman Catholicism (under the
Pope in Rome)
– Reformation in 1500s led to split in
the Church -> Protestantism
– Protestantism reached England;
Church of England rejected
Catholicism, accepted
Protestantism
– Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon