Your topic:​ Can the people of Northern Ireland find lasting peace?

Before you begin your research, identify guiding research questions to support your topic.

Write three support questions for your research that can be definitively answered with factual
support:

1. Has ireland ever had long periods of lasting peace?

2. How much have the people of Northern Ireland been through?

3. Why is Northern Ireland NOT at peace?

Using your support questions to focus your research, locate resources as directed below.

Source 1: online encyclopedia entry

Citation: Landow, Charles. “The Northern Ireland Peace Process.” ​Council on Foreign
Relations​, Council on Foreign Relations,
www.cfr.org/backgrounder/northern-ireland-peace-process.

What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.

Belfast agreement is a recent agreement that was fully implemented that has created a longer
period of peace in Ireland. Catholics felt mistreated as the minority in Northern Ireland in the 1960’s,
which started the conflict. Protestants wanted to remain in the UK while Catholics wanted to reunite
with the republic of Ireland. Good Friday Agreement of 1998 stated that Northern Ireland could be
separate and rejoin Ireland if majority voted that way.

How does this source support your topic?

This shows that there has been lasting peace in Ireland recently, proving the propensity of peace in
the future.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

An explanation of the Belfast agreement and how it has helped create peace.

Source 2: one article from a database, online journal, or scholarly journal

Citation: “Letter: William Dunne to John Curtis, April 2, 1851.” ​Historical Society of
Pennsylvania​,
hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-william-dunne-to-john-curtis-april-2-1851.

What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.
People in Ireland such as William Dunne, are poor and living through hard times. He talks about the
religious tension that is building up, and which we know will eventually lead to the conflicts to come
later during the 20th century.

How does this source support your topic?

Details the struggle that people of Northern Ireland have been through. Provides reasoning for why
Northern Ireland won’t be able to forgive their oppressors or make peace with itself.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

The starvation and religious tension beginning to build up before the separation of Ireland was even
a thing.

Sources 3 and 4: news articles from Irish news sources on one recent event

#3

Citation: McGarry, Patsy. “Attack on Religious Building in NI Almost Every Second Day.” ​The
Irish Times​, The Irish Times, 21 Aug. 2019,
www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/attack-on-religious-building-in-ni
-almost-every-second-day-1.3993384.
What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.

Catholic churches are being burned in Northern Ireland.

How does this source support your topic?

Shows that there is still violence between the Protestants and the Catholics.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

The Churches are being burned down by the protestants and attacks are religiously motivated.

#4

Citation: McGreevy, Ronan. “Northern Ireland Could Return to Violence, Study Shows.” ​The
Irish Times​, The Irish Times, 17 Aug. 2019,
www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/northern-ireland-could-return-to-violence-study-
shows-1.3989670.
What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.

Young people are more prone to a single-sided view with politics. They romanticize the whole idea of
“The Troubles” since they were not alive to experience it.

How does this source support your topic?

New generations will only prolong the violence in Ireland.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

Young people “Romanticizing” The Troubles.

Sources 5, 6, and 7: news articles from an international news source on same recent event (may
be a U.S. news source)

#5

​Citation Information:

Brennan, Bridget. “Derry Remembers Victims as New Threat of Violence Emerges.” ​ABC News,​ 28
Jan. 2019,
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-28/derry-northern-ireland-attacks-new-ira-the-troubles/10755638.
What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.

There is a new group in Ireland called the “New IRA” Republican youth are inspired by Brexit and
unsatisfied with the current political climate. Using violence.

How does this source support your topic?

Ireland won’t reach lasting peace because the new generation is just as unsatisfied and is relying on
violence.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

Young people using violence to fight for Ireland’s independence.

#6

Citation Information: Jones, Sarah. “A Young Journalist Has Been Killed Amid Violence in
Northern Ireland.” ​Intelligencer,​ Intelligencer, 19 Apr. 2019,
nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/journalist-lyra-mckee-killed-in-violence-in-northern-ireland.h
tml.
What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.

Journalist Lyra McKee killed in riot in Northern Ireland.

How does this source support your topic?

Shows that violence is still very much alive in Northern Ireland.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

Certain groups still don’t accept the Good Friday Agreement. Many loyalists are not willing to forgive
incidents that happened during “The Troubles,” the conflict in Northern Ireland in the 20th century.

#7

Citation Information:
What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the
source.

71 percent of people in Northern Ireland voted “yes” to the Good Friday agreement.

How does this source support your topic?

-More than half of the people of Northern Ireland want peace, meaning that there is hope for lasting
peace in the future.

What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory
article?

71 percent of people supported the Good Friday Agreement.