ABSTRACT
Northern Ireland has dominated much academic research and scholarship, yet is less than a century old. British colonisation from the sixteenth century resulted in the creation of this semi-autonomous province from what was once part of a united Ireland. 1 Centuries of ethno-political tension between Catholics and Protestants (both Christian denominations) have quelled significantly since the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. However, deep-rooted cultural differences continue to demarcate and dictate interactions between the ‘two communities’ to a point whereby ‘sectarianism’ is almost synonymous with Northern Ireland. 2
