Hearing about the conflict in Northern Ireland in the media it mainly seems to be a confessional disagreement between the Catholic and Protestant religious body. But having a closer look to the country’s history you will face the fact of the steady supremacy of Great Britain. The history of the Northern Ireland conflict approximately began with the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1171 when the Normans gained control of a large part of the Irish island. Few hundred years later, in 1541 the next the English monarch Henry VIII declared himself King of Ireland. With his attempt to convert the Catholic Irish he started up the religious conflict whereas the invasion and settlement was the origin of the conflict between the Irish and the English people. Most of the settlers and Irishmen maintained their Catholic faith, the English in contrary became Protestant. Henry’s successor James I carried the so called 'Ulster Plantation' out, in which the North Eastern part of Ireland was with a particular aim in mind settled by mainly Protestant British and Scottish people. The Irish population suffered a lot under the supremacy of the English Crown. According to their unfair treatment and discrimination many rebellions followed. Hundreds of rebellions were brought down with plenty of bloodshed but only few ended successfully for the disadvantaged Irish population. In 1689 William the Orange defeated for example Irish rebels that were fighting for independence and returned the city of Derry, which the Irish had occupied few years before, to the British Protestants. The discrimination against the Catholic population went on and after the victory of William the Orange things even turned out to become worse for the Catholics. The Penal Laws were introduced and led to a tremendous limitation of rights of the Catholics. Their church services were prohibited. And they determined that Catholics were not allowed to run for public departments, to found school