But the effects of the troubles still have a deep impact on my entire family to this day. The easiest way to describe the troubles is the constant fight for freedom, to go against British rule and to be a free country. Although the vicious attempts by the IRA were ultimately unsuccessful because the divide is still in place even to this day. My brother and father both have the Irish flag tattooed on their forearms and whenever we go back to Ireland they must remain covered up in certain parts of the city. There are certain neighbourhoods based as “protestant” or “catholic”, and if either of them were caught with these tattoos they could have been brutally beaten or even killed. Although the troubles technically ended in 1998, the reminisce still effect the entire city and its
But the effects of the troubles still have a deep impact on my entire family to this day. The easiest way to describe the troubles is the constant fight for freedom, to go against British rule and to be a free country. Although the vicious attempts by the IRA were ultimately unsuccessful because the divide is still in place even to this day. My brother and father both have the Irish flag tattooed on their forearms and whenever we go back to Ireland they must remain covered up in certain parts of the city. There are certain neighbourhoods based as “protestant” or “catholic”, and if either of them were caught with these tattoos they could have been brutally beaten or even killed. Although the troubles technically ended in 1998, the reminisce still effect the entire city and its