The partition of Northern Ireland is a ____ issue that still divides people. Following the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and the Treaty 1921, the 6 counties were separated from what is now the Republic of Ireland. This action is viewed differently by the different communities in the North. ____ remember the prejudice they suffered as the ____ Northern Parliament, Stormont, created a sectarian state where the they were discriminated against economically, politically and socially. Their efforts to achieve ____ peacefully through ____ were met with violent opposition from the ____ and the British Army. For many nationalists, joining the I.R.A seemed like the only solution. Unionists saw things entirely differently. For them, Ulster had been home since the ____ and they felt constantly threatened by the Catholic nationalists that wanted to expel them. They feel the tie to United Kingdom is legitimate because of the ____. They point to the terrible atrocities committed by the ____ including the Omagh bombing as justification for the treatment of the Catholic community. These different ____ have made finding peace difficult, but the ____ has brought an end to most of the violence by introducing a ____ government in ____.

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