From what it seems to me, I think that the government was right in introducing interment, although I do appreciate the argument against it. They were faced with a growing menace, on both the Catholic and Protestant sides, who had means and the will to use violence to get there way. That being the case, what else could they do. Divis, they were not the same as concentration camps.

Guest with no name. I do actually concede to your argument and your history is correct. Yes, the bitterness of the Irish lies in its past. When I was refering to them having the same rights as the Men of Kent, I was talking about most of the 19th Century and up to 1922. It was not to help. Resentment against past treatment, long racial memories, the rise of nationalism in the 19th Centuries, lead to Ireland's break with Britain.