Colour scheme - initial impressions, very reminiscent of the
Irish Tricolour. Possibly contentious, needs to be changed? Prepare mockups using composite colours from relevant NIR flags to achieve some neutrality.
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The creation of Northern Ireland was accompanied by violence both in defence of and against partition. During
the conflict of 1920–22, the capital
Belfast saw major
communal violence, mainly between Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist civilians. More than 500 were killed and more than 10,000 became refugees, mostly Catholics. For the next fifty years, Northern Ireland had an unbroken series of
Unionist Party governments. There was informal mutual
segregation by both communities, and the Unionist governments were accused of discrimination against the Irish nationalist and Catholic minority. In the late 1960s, a
campaign to end discrimination against Catholics and nationalists was opposed by
loyalists, who saw it as a
republican front. This unrest sparked
the Troubles, a thirty-year conflict involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries and state forces, which claimed over 3,500 lives and injured 50,000 others. The 1998
Good Friday Agreement was a major step in the
peace process, including
paramilitary disarmament and security normalisation, although
sectarianism and segregation remain major social problems, and sporadic violence has continued. (Full article...)