HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Keir Hardie, Isaac Butt, Fenian Brotherhood
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Ethnicity and religion don"t necessarily tell you their view on politics. Heavily concentrated in the northeast especially in and around belfast. Dublin is in a certain sense in a category all its own. Already a big city in the early 19th century, but didn"t grow that much. While it"s a center of economic activity it doesn"t have a lot of big heavy industry. Not a center of export production and large scale industry like belfast. Nearly half of all factory workers in ireland were in the belfast area. Majority of protestants lived within 65 miles of belfast. Much larger part of the population in the. Divided between church of england and others, largest presbyterian. Dublin and cork also places where people end up from other places. Northeast and the south and west have very different experiences. A lot of soil in ireland is poor. Can feed to animals as well as yourself.
