Short analysis on northern ireland conflict assignment

The third factor which contributed to the armed conflict is the lack of voting rights for the Catholics. Though the catholics may be equally capable as the Protestants, they were not given equal voting rights. The right to vote for the Catholics was a problem to them prior to 1968. Each household were given only two votes while companies had more votes depending on their size. Many companies were owned by Protestant so they ended up with more votes. Many voting districts were often drawn up to include large proportion of Protestant.

As the Protestants were richer and had bigger businesses, the Catholics lost out. At that time, only those who owned houses and businesses were entitled to vote in the elections. As many companies were owned by richer protestants, they had more votes and thus was unfair to the poorer catholics. The Catholics also had no voting districts near them thus they decided to protest against the voting system which created tension between the catholics and protestants. This gradually led to creation of conflict between the two religions due to the tension between them.