Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2013. № 12. Part 3. P. 127-130.
ETHNIC MINORITIES AND SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN IRELAND DURING 1920-1923
Mel'nikova Svetlana Viktorovna
Komsomolsk-on-Amur City
Abstract. The article considers the influence of violence escalation during the period of 1920-1923 on the ethnic minorities’ fate in Ireland. The author concludes that, although, unlike Ulster, violence was not of a sectarian nature in the South of Ireland, the Revolution and the Civil War all over Ireland turned into a tragedy for ethnic minorities, who found themselves in a vulnerable condition of state and traditional connections destruction. Aggression was the reaction of self-defense on the part of closed ethnic and religious communities, and it was based on the stereotypes that had evolved over the centuries.
Key words and phrases: этнические меньшинства Ирландии (1920-1923), юнионисты, католическое меньшинство Ольстера, протестантское сообщество, этнорелигиозные сообщества, ethnic minorities of Ireland (1920-1923), Unionists, Ulster Catholic minority, Protestant community, ethnic a
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