Worksheet Week 7: affirmative action in Northern Ireland 1) Select the

Mar 22, 2011 - Worksheet Week 7: affirmative action in Northern Ireland ... 3) Northern Ireland Police To Stop Favoring Catholic Recruits ... Last year, crucially, their coalition received control from Britain of the Northern Ireland ... Adjectives.
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Worksheet Week 7: affirmative action in Northern Ireland 1) Select the right answer: a) They are in the: Belfast. House of Lords Derry. House of Commons Cork. Northern Ireland Assembly Houses of the Oireachtas c) Owen Paterson is: Northern Ireland First Minister. b) Campbell belongs to: MP for London. the Democratic Unionist party. Secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein. The Parliament Speaker. Ulster Unionist party. the Conservative party. d) They are discussing a new decision concerning : peace in Northern Ireland. b) He was elected in : reunification with the Republic of Ireland. London. a change in the police in Northern Ireland. Dublin. the increased terrorist threats in Northern Ireland. 2) Fill in the blanks Mr Campbell: Thank you Mr Speaker. The _______________ threat level remains high. The Secretary of State announced yesterday the end of the 50:50 discrimination rule in _______________ to the police. Will he join us with next week in _______________ that the 10 years of discrimination against young Protestants is now completely at an end, and that young Protestants and young _______________ can join that police service to combat _______________ threat levels and ensure a return to _______________ in Northern Ireland? Mr Paterson: I am _______________ to the hon. Member for his question. We are happy that the PSNI now represents the community , we are happy that the PSNI now offers a career _______________ attracting people from all _______________ the community. And now the issue of the PSNI is in devolved hands, that's the place where it should be. 3) Northern Ireland Police To Stop Favoring Catholic Recruits by The Associated Press DUBLIN March 22, 2011, 10:59 am ET Northern Ireland's police force will stop being required to hire Catholic applicants over Protestants following a decade of change that has bolstered Catholic support for law and order, the British government announced Tuesday. Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said the affirmative action policy in force since 2001 can no longer be justified because today's Police Service of Northern Ireland has risen to 29.76 percent Catholic. That contrasts with the 8.3 percent Catholic composition of the police force it replaced, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, in 2001. Paterson said a decade-old policy — requiring at least half of all job-winning applicants to be Catholic — was "always intended to be temporary." He said the practice of recruiting new officers from both sides of the community was "fully embedded" and police staffing now could be permitted to "develop naturally." He said the affirmative-action rules would be allowed to lapse as of Monday, March 28. Reform of Northern Ireland's overwhelmingly Protestant police force was a central goal of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord of 1998. That landmark pact sought to build on mid-1990s cease-fires by the Irish

Republican Army and outlawed Protestant paramilitary groups responsible for the bulk of bloodshed and more than 3,600 killings. In particular, the Good Friday pact sought to address deeply ingrained Catholic alienation with Northern Ireland, a Protestant-majority territory that remained within the United Kingdom when the predominantly Catholic rest of Ireland won independence from Britain in 1922. As part of reconciliation, the IRA renounced violence in 2005 and the IRA-linked Sinn Fein party in 2007 accepted the lawful authority of the Northern Ireland police for the first time. Protestant leaders responded by forming a unity government with Sinn Fein as the Good Friday pact intended. Last year, crucially, their coalition received control from Britain of the Northern Ireland justice system, further boosting Catholic involvement in the police. Northern Ireland's justice minister, David Ford, welcomed Britain's decision and said he was confident that the police would "continue to attract excellent applicants from all sections of our community without the use of the temporary provisions." Northern Ireland's 1.7 million people are roughly 40 percent Irish Catholic, 55 percent British Protestant and 5 percent from immigrant and other groups that don't fit into the local sectarian divide. Ford said the police should increasingly recruit to ensure representation from those minority groups, including immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe. The IRA, rooted in the most impoverished Catholic districts, killed nearly 300 police officers from 1970 to 1997 when it called a lasting cease-fire. It made life particularly dangerous for the relatively few Catholic officers, who couldn't live safely in Catholic areas and risked ambush if they visited relatives there. IRA dissident groups today continue to try to kill police officers and have issued particular threats against Catholic recruits and police-reform officials. In 2009 the dissidents killed their first member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland: Constable Stephen Carroll, a 48-year-old Catholic from England. 4) Find equivalents to the following words in the text: Supported:________________________

Aim: ____________________________

Period of ten years: _________________

Massacre: _______________________

Finish/expire:______________________

Implanted: _______________________

Massively: ________________________

Surprise attack:____________________

5) Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Justify with a quote from the text: The percentage of Catholics in the NIP has reached 29.7 thanks to a discriminatory policy. R/W __________________________________________________________________________________________ This policy had been going on for ten years. R/W __________________________________________________________________________________________ The peace accord of 1998 stated that the proportion of Protestants in the Northern Irish police should be increased. R/W _________________________________________________________________________________________ In 1922 the whole Ireland became independent from the UK. R/W _________________________________________________________________________________________ The IRA was composed of Protestant revolutionaries. R/W _________________________________________________________________________________________ There are as many protestants as Catholics in Northern Ireland. R/W _________________________________________________________________________________________ Catholics refrained from joining the police because it was dangerous. R/W __________________________________________________________________________________________ IRA dissident groups have stopped attacking policemen. R/W

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6) Timeline: Reorganise the events in chronological order and find when they occurred: Good Friday/ Sinn Fein accepted the authority of the PSNI/ the IRA called for a ceasefire/ Stephen Carroll was killed/creation of the Republic of Ireland Date

Events

7) Translation D’autres groupes minoritaires en Irlande du Nord qui ne correspondent pas au clivage religieux habituel devraient être davantage représentés au sein de la police. _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ les membres de l'armée républicaine irlandaise ont pendant des décennies rendu la vie très difficile aux officiers de police qu'il menaçaient de mort. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 8) Find The Gaelic equivalents to the English names on the map: Gaillimh Ros Láir An Cnoc Béal Feirste Baile Átha Cliath Corcaigh An tSionna Chiarraí Doire

9) Pair Work: Adjectives unfair discriminatory overwhelming terrorists provisional sectarian

bloody controversial pastoral wild Verbs: to balance to increase

to favour to fail to reach to crash to hire to aim at to thrive

to lapse Nouns: a percentage delusion depression conflict bombings

hunger strike applicants demonstrations cohesion parade landscape

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What images spring to mind when you hear the word Ireland? What do you know about Irish religious history? Would you like to visit Ireland?

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What is Ireland famous for?

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What do you know about Irish culture?

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What do you know about the economy of Ireland? What does your country have in common with Ireland? Why did they implement the 50-50 policy in Northern Ireland? Is affirmative action good public policy?

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Is affirmative action necessary to achieve equal opportunity? Is diversity in all areas of society a valuable social good?

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Is affirmative action a form of reverse discrimination?

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What are the differences between the two Irelands? Does your country have good relations with Ireland? Who are the most famous Irish people you know? Why did they end the 50-50 policy in Northern Ireland? Does affirmative action justly compensate past wrongs? Affirmative action contradicts meritocracy, can you accept that? Supposing you support affirmative action, should it be continued forever or discontinued at some point? How successful has affirmative action been in correcting inequalities?

10) What is the Good Friday Agreement?

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