The Troubles
This year we've been working on Progress from different perspectives. During the second term, we mainly concentrated on Ireland and their Troubles to reflect on progress in societies.
All these Troubles started with the differences in the law between protestant and catholic people in Ireland. The IRA (Irish Republican Army) reacted to these discriminations bombing different parts of England.
Bloody Sunday by U2 is a song which explains what happened on that day.
On 30 January 1972, there was a civil rights demostration through the streets of Londonderry in north-west Northern Ireland. A number of people continued on towards an army barricade where local youths threw stones at soldiers, who responded with a water canon, CS gas and rubber bullets.
The Guildford Four, there were a group of four Irish people that were arrested in October of 1975. They were convicted of bombings carried out by the IRA. They spent 15 years in prision for a crime that they didn't do.
On April 1998, the Belfast Agreement (also known as the "Good Friday Agreement") was signed. It was an agreement between the British and Irish goverments to try to finish with The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Omagh Bombing took place on August 15, 1998, when a car bomb exploded in the center of the city of Omagh. 29 people were killed and about 220 injured, the victims were both Catholic and Protestants, including two Spanish people.
The 22nd August is considered by many the end of The Troubles. The Irish National Liberation Army declared a ceasefire.
FOR US, THE BEST TWO PRESENTATIONS ARE THE FOLLOWING:
AND THE BEST ORAL PRESENTATIONS ARE THESE: