| The 1960's proved a time period in which people all around the world were speaking out for civil rights. Catholics in Northern Ireland were one of the major groups breaking out of their confined mold. Suppression form the British since the Early 17th century had caused irreplaceable anger and anguish. However it was not only a fight against British rule but a fight for Protestant civil treatment toward the Catholics, who were by far the minority. The Catholics simply wanted equal and fair treatment as issued in their Civil Rights Document in the 1960's. However peace and compromise were not met and conflict raged on between the Catholics ( nationalists) and the Protestants ( loyalists). As a direct result of the deadly conflict political spokesmen were imprisoned by the loyalist party. The treatment that the political prisoners were forced to live with and the conditions that they lived in were horribly incomprehensible. These unspeakable conditions let the world know exactly what was happening in the Northern Ireland and it also let the Irish know the peace was urgently needed. |
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