44 - 64) states that in 1967 Ireland was at the beginning of a peaceful crusade for social freedom, this was a challenge to uniformity and the way Catholics were treated unjustifiably with respect to Protestants. Fighting to safeguard fundamental liberal rights, the Northern Ireland Common Rights Association (NICRA) had evidence showing the victimization of Catholics over housing and occupations, trusting that committees were under the influence of trade unionists/loyalists . This caused a lot of tension to the point that there was mass rioting and the British Army was sent in to mediate the situation. Ireland's problems were accepted to end in 1998 with the Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement. In 1969 and 1998 the riots in Ireland had seen a total of 3,530 deaths and in the meantime had called into question many liberal ideas (McKittrick, McVEA, 2000 pg.