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Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2004

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RESPCONF

Label

Q22 Who do you think was responsible for the conflict?

Question text

Looking back at “the troubles” now, who do you think was primarily responsible for the conflict?

Responses

0	No-one / dont blame anyone	9
1	Republicans	73
2	Civil Rights Groups / Civil Rights Issues	46
3	Loyalists	11
4	PIRA	33
5	IRA	218
6	Protestant Community	9
7	Catholic Community	9
8	N/A	0
9	MISSING	27
10	Republicans and the Americans who funded them	1
11	Republicans and the ROI Government	4
12	Republicans, ROI Government, and the Americans who funded th	1
13	Ian Paisley	35
14	Catholics And Republicans	1
15	British Government	157
16	British Government, Protestant Politicians, and Ian Paisley	2
17	Suppression of Catholics and Unionists holding onto power fo	5
18	British Government and Unionist Politicians	1
19	Terrorists / Paramilitaries from both sides of the community	85
20	Political Leaders	1
21	Both sides of the Community	268
22	Everyone / All parties concerned	57
23	Bad / unfair Government that allowed discrimination to flour	2
24	English settlers that took over Irish land, Historically the	5
25	The Police	7
26	British and Irish Governments	14
27	British and Irish Governments and Paramilitaries on both sid	5
28	British Government and the Police	2
29	Politicians	38
30	John Hulme	1
31	Americans who funded what went on here	1
32	British Government and Protestants	4
33	Republicans and the IRA	1
34	ROI Government and IRA	1
35	Catholics and the British Government	1
36	Both sides of the Community but mainly the IRA	2
37	Governments heavy handed reaction to Republicans	1
38	Politicians, those in Authority and the unfair treatment of	2
39	British Army	4
40	The British Government of the day that didnt give Catholics	2
41	British Government and British Army / General British Involv	6
42	British Government and the People	2
43	Police and the Army	1
44	British Government and Paramilitaries	5
45	The Northern Ireland Government	8
46	One Party rule in the past	1
47	Unionist Government being one sided, Unionist misrule, Storm	43
48	Peoples Democracy	3
49	Rebirth of the IRA	1
50	Senior Politicians in the late 60s	2
51	British People	1
52	Extreme Unionists / Loyalists	2
53	UK and Northern Ireland Politicians	2
54	Historical reasons (General)	4
55	Extremists on both sides / Conflicting parties	3
56	Intolerance and Discrimination / People not being treated fa	2
57	Everyone / All parties concerned and intolerance	1
58	Power hungry people	1
59	Short Sighted Politicians	1
60	Government (General)	30
61	Stubborn Politicians	2
62	History and the teaching of it / people ignorance	3
63	The Ulster Unionists	1
64	Bitter people	1
65	Unionist Politicians	2
66	Nationalists	6
67	Inequality and the way Catholics were treated	2
68	Working class people who have a poor understanding of how to	1
69	Police and the Republican Movement	1
70	Unionists	8
71	British Government in 1920s	1
72	Margaret Thatcher	2
73	The Monarchy	1
74	Ian Paisley and Protestant hatred towards Catholics	2
75	Ian Paisley and the British Government	3
76	Bernadette Devlin and Ian Paisley	4
77	UDA	1
78	Sinn Fein IRA	4
79	Loyalists and Protestants	1
80	IRA, UDA and the UVF	4
81	Ian Paisley and his supporters	4
82	Too much segregation, the Churches and the British Governmen	1
83	The British Government and Loyalists	3
84	B Specials, British Government, IRA and UVF	1
85	Gerry Adams	1
86	Republican terrorists and paramilitaries	4
87	Bernadette Devlin	5
88	Criminals (General)	7
89	Breakdown of communications	1
90	Irish Government	5
91	Republican Movement / Organisations	6
92	Evil people / Bigots on both sides	11
93	IRA and UDA	7
94	British Imperialism and bigotry	1
95	Ian Paisley and the Free Presbyterian Church	1
96	Paramilitaries and Politicians	6
97	Respondent stated they were involved	1
98	Dont know	281
100	The Media	1
101	Northern Ireland Politicians on both sides	7
102	Loyalists and Republicans equally	11
103	Everyone who was fighting or involved in violence	10
104	Sinn Fein	3
105	B Specials	1
106	IRA, Republicans and the Irish Government	1
107	British and The IRA	9
108	Church, Government and Employers	1
109	Extremists on both sides and paramilitaries	1
110	Discrimination by government brought about the creation of r	1
111	British and Irish Governments and the Stormont regime	1
112	Police, Army and Paramilitaries	1
113	Criminals and Paramilitaries	2
114	Criminals and Republicans	1
115	Paramilitaries, Politicians and Criminals	1
116	Politicians and Criminals	1
117	British and Stormont Government	1
118	British Government as they didn’t deal with the IRA properly	4
119	British and Irish Governments, Paramilitaries and Political	2
120	British and Irish Governments and Criminals	1
121	Politicians that created a divide between the communities an	1
122	Unionists who originally set up an artificial state / Partit	2
123	British Government and both communities	2
124	The Government and History	1
125	Republicans, Loyalists and the Police	1
126	British and Irish Governments and both communities	1
127	Politicians, Northern Ireland People and the British Governm	1
128	The Labour Government	1
129	Terror in general and the IRA	1
130	Peoples Democracy amd Bernadette Devlin	1
131	Badly informed young people	1
132	The Government, IRA, UDA and the UVF	1
133	Bernadette Devlin and Civil Rights	1
134	Peoples Ignorance	1
135	Catholics and their Political Leaders	1
136	Bernadette Devlin and the Nationalist Community	1
137	Bloody Sunday	1
138	IRA, UDA, UVF and UFF	1
139	Government didn’t try hard enough	1
140	Protestant Community and Republicans	2
141	Fear of an All Ireland and the fear of British Rule	1
142	Nationalists and Republicans	1
143	Historically relates to sections of society not having the v	1
144	Government, Catholic and Protestant Communities	1
145	Politicians who were working with terrorists	1
146	British Government and Sectarian Organisations	1
147	Civil Rights Groups, John Hulme and the then IRA	1
148	British Government and Unionists	2
149	Politicians and racketeering	1
150	Religious bigots mostly on the Loyalist side	1
151	Paramilitary groups, especially the IRA	1
152	Loyalist politicians with the help of the police	1
153	Unfair treatment of Catholics by Protestants	1
154	Polititions and Both Communities	2
155	Ian Paisley, Martin Maginess, Gerry Adams and Bernadette McA	1
156	Army, Police, Loyalists and Republicans	1
157	Spiritual Forces at large	1
158	Oppression / discrimination of certain sections of the commu	2
159	Some Politicians who used it for their own ends	1
160	British Government, the Army and the police	1
161	Its because of the way people are brought up in Northern Ire	1
162	Sinful humanity	1
163	Paramilitaries and Politicians who were making money out of	1
164	Ian Paisley and extremists on all sides	2
165	Brian Faulkner	1
166	Unionists and their bitterness against Catholics, British Go	1
167	All Bigots and those who didnt heed the Ordinary people	1
168	Ian Paisley and all the DUP Politicians	1
169	British Government and all Loyalists, especially Ian Paisley	1
170	All paramilitaries and those who support them	1
171	B Specials and Loyalists	1
172	IRA, the likes of Gerry Adams and the Civil Rights Movement	1
173	Government and Society	1
174	B Specials and Civil Rights	1
175	Anyone who worked outside of democracy and took the law into	1
176	Gangsterism	1
177	Bigots, Crimelords and also Government, Police, Army and the	1
178	Criminals and bigots who didnt allow the Civil rights marche	1
179	Bigots and gansters that manipulated ordinary people	1
180	All Terrorists / Paramilitaries, Governments and Politicians	1
181	Republicans who wanted change too quickly, forcing their cul	1
182	Religion caused the divide and racketeering took over	1
183	Politicians and Government	1
184	Paramilitaries, politicians bigotry	1
185	British Government, the Churches, Local Politicians, America	1
186	Loyalists, republicans and The british government	2
187	British Government and The Northern Irish Government	1
188	Politicians, Religious Zealots, Paramilitaries and the Churc	1
189	Satan the Devil	1
190	Stormont at the time of the civil rights and republican move	1

Disclaimer

Please note that these frequencies are not weighted.

Location

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2004

Universe

Northern Irish adults;National;Adults aged 18 and over in Northern Ireland during 2004

Sampling

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Study Type

Repeated cross-sectional study

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