◉ Individuals own the factors of production

◉ No intervention of the government

◉ Supply and demand regulate the market

◉ Individuals produce for their own profit

Command economy, that’s similar to communist economy, and has:

◉ No private property – everyone owns everything

◉ The government decides EVERYTHING

◉ Provide free and easy access to services (healthcare,

education...)

◉ Production based on collective objectives

Ireland was a colony of the United Kingdom without a local Parliament. There was poverty and exploitation, but many Irish nationalists wanted more: independence.

So, they organized the IRB, and in April 24 they took the general post officce, where Patrick pearse red the Irish declaration of indipendence. 

But there was no support from the locals, so the uk won and executed the leaders of the revolt.

After this revolt, the England police continued to kill innocent people, so in 1919 there was the war of indipendence where was created the IRA and in 1921 Ireland gets its indipendence.

Derry/Londonderry is one of the most important city in NI with Belfast. Derry is split in two parts: the nationalist part and the unionist part. In the nationalist part we can see son graffiti about Bobby sands and in general about the IRA. We can also see the memorial about the Sunday Bloody Sunday, in 1972, where the catholic nationalists started a pacific demonstration where the England police answered shooting the protesters; 13 people died and 17 got wounded.

In 1960’, inspired by the civil rights movement in the USA, the nationalists made a peaceful mass protest, but on burntollet bridge, in 1969, the unionists attacked the catholic and the police didn’t do anything.

So the nationalists, in 1969, created the provisional IRA, a paramilitary force that saw itself as the real successor of the original IRA (1919-1922). Firstly they defense themselves, then they started some bombings that caused 1700 kills.

In April 1998 the Good Friday agreement was signed by the British PM, Tony Blair, and the Irish PM, Bertie Ahern.

This agreement was voted by the people in Northern Ireland and Ireland, and it would have created a New parliament: the Northern Irish Assembly. UK devolved their powers to give some type of autonomy to Northern Ireland.

This agreement it would have been done only if armed groups agreed to dispose of their weapons. Also the 

people who had been involved in violence were released from prison.

 Northern Irish "First Ministers" are compose by the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister that are one unionist, the other nationalist. Since 2006 the first minister has been chosen by the largest party in the assembly. If this is a unionist party, then the deputy minister is drawn from the largest nationalist party, and vice versa. Both ministers have equal powers, and one can’t be in office without the other. If either the first minister or the deputy first minister resigns, the other is also forced to resign, whether they want to or not.