In the late 60s, Irish Catholic residents of Northern Ireland began a civil rights campaign in protest of the deeply entrenched discrimination against them and in favor of British Protestants that had defined the region for hundreds of years. After explosive reactions in response from British nationalists and British security, from then until the 1990s, Northern Ireland was the site of a prolonged, bloody conflict between its residents in the name of defining the region’s contentious status: as a part of Ireland, or the United Kingdom. After decades of bombings and shootings between paramilitaries that mostly claimed the lives of civilians, a tentative peace was brought on by the Good Friday Agreement, a groundbreaking step that allowed Northern Ireland’s residents to define themselves as they pleased, along with a soft border with Ireland. But with Brexit, the UK’s exit from the European Union, many of those nationalist tensions were reignited, throwing the region’s status in the futu