Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
In the Republic of Ireland (the South), where 94 percent of the population was Catholic
and only 6 percent Protestant, there was a clearly dominant majority. But in the North, at
the time it was formed, Catholics were still a sizable 35 percent of the population—enough
to demand attention. To maintain the status quo, Protestants considered certain forms of
anti-Catholic discrimination necessary. It was this discrimination that led to the Troubles,
the conflict that filled headlines from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
