Resolved: The United Kingdom should return Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.

In the 1600's the Protestant Revolution was in full swing. The Tudors had began to dispell the Irish Catholics out of the region known today as North Ireland in order to instill a Protestant population in the traditional Gaelic, Roman Catholic, Irish community. A few years later the English would invade Ireland again killing several thousand. 50,000 of the defeated Irish were forced to go off and live in slavery in the East Indies. [1] After the war King Cromwell William of Orange began the settlement of the Protestants in Ireland stripping of the Irish of their rights while Northern Ireland held English Elites. [1] Fun fact of the day, you don't where Orange on St. Patty's day or you get puntched. Why? It's because Orange was the color of King Cromwell William of Orange, the color of the English thrown. There have been countless acts of attrocity the British have committed, but one of the ones I'm going to talk about is that of the Bloody Sunday Mascre. In Derby, the British 1st Para, open fire upon innocent people. This killed 26 people and though many other acts have been committed this one received so much attention was due to it being so public. [5] s://upload.wikimedia.org...; alt="" />An interesting thing on how the division split up is that of Ireland voting for the Sinn Fein Party while Northern Ireland had voted for the Unionists. To get others to understand these Parties the Sinn Fein is a Republican Left Winged Secular party. The Irish Union Party or also known as the Irish Union Alliance, is the equivilance to the British Conservative Party. [2] Though the issue of Irish unification has been thrown around this is more of a Left-Right issue and is something that is a threat to the political process of these areas. To quote John Adams, "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution." Last time I checked, Democracy means listening to opinions of others you do not like. Now before my opponent comes in and says that the Sinn Fein is also in Northern Ireland, we can still see that they are not as far left as the one in Ireland. It's like Liberal vs. Moderate for the example. The key fundamentals of democracy are being violated as people in Northern Ireland are ignoring the ideas of the Irish just because there's a political division. That is much like if the South ceded from the US again and formed the Republican States of America in order to escape the grasps of the blue states in the Northeast. The failure and resistance to assimulate is a threat to the democratic process. [3]Roger Masters stated that there was one out of three situiations that I will list that necessitate Nationalism. 1. at an inter-group level, humans respond to competition or conflict by organizing into groups to either attack other groups or defend their group from hostile groups2. at the intragroup level, individuals gain advantage through cooperation with others in securing collective goods that are not accessible through individual effort alone3. on the individual level, self-interested concerns over personal fitness by individuals either consciously or subconsciously motivate the creation of group formation as a means of security [4]As we can see here that there are several cases here that necessitates it. We can see that through British interevention the Irish have been seperated by Cromwell and now those in Northern Ireland fear joining the south. Why? They constantly are flooded by British propaganda stating that the Catholics will kill them all or something of that resort. They are brainwashed with this kind of propraganda due to fears from the Irish Republican Army. (see cartoon bellow) It wasn't until 2007 that the Northern Irish were given Direct Rule again. Before then the UK controlled the affairs of the region. This was to quell recent uprest in Belfast. Sources1. (O'Callaghan, Sean (2000). To Hell or Barbados. Brandon. p. 85.) 2. (B. M. Walker, 'Political affiliations' in Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 (Royal Irish Academy, 1978), xiv.) 3. (Diamond, L., Lecture at Hilla University for Humanistic Studies January 21, 2004: "What is Democracy")4. (Motyl, Alexander, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of Nationalism 1. San Diego: Academic Press.)5. (Eamonn McCann (2006). The Bloody Sunday Inquiry – The Families Speak Out. London: Pluto Press.) http://www.youtube.com...