Hello Yvette,
I wrote a long answer to you before yesterday, after 10 pm. and when I wanted to send it disappeared. I tried to look for because I knew that I am unable to write it again.
I wrote about the wars of religion in Europe,or rather in Northern Ireland. It seems to me that the period of wars of religion were in Europe in the Middle Age.
There was a misunderstanding when Alan wrote in one of his essays that in the 19th century…‘England’ was used to stand for the whole country.
This sentence recalled my childhood -in 1947 I went to school - and not in the 19th century, but even 20th century everybody said England instead of Great Britain, and this name didn’t exist:The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.( 9 words) and Alan told humorously that most countries are very lucky because they have to say one single word when they ask their country’s name.
As he recall my childhood I wrote in my answer that we didn’t know the Great Britain name as after WWII the newspapers, radio, our parents, teachers and everybody said England. It was very surprising for me Beeesneees who didn’t understand that I brought to mind a 6 year-old child’s memory and she wrote to me.: “This will be because Great Britain is not the same as England.”
- This wasn’t its reason.
- I realized that I said something which is her sore point.
- I never thought that there is difference among people who live in Great Britain.
So I had a book its title Spotlight on Britain. Was edited by Oxford University Press in 1989 and one of its first sentence: “Many foreigners say ‘England’ or English when they mean ‘Britain’, or the UK, and ‘British’.”
This book writes how Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England had been welded together into Great Britain.
In my childhood I remember that radio always told IRA killed how many people. I never understood this situation. Now I know that between the catholic Ireland and the protestant/ later: Anglican England the Anglo-Irish relations began in the 12. century. - after lot of conflicts the Partition, the Northern-Ireland separated and became a part the UK in 1921. But the religious disturbances continued; Even 1969 there was a rioting in Northern Ireland . By 1972 the British Army had to try to restore the peace and then was the “Bloody Sunday” in Londonderry.
Only we hope that there won’t be never public unrest between the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
Well, I could describe what I read in this book.
Take care:
Kati
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