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Northern Ireland is a small place — fewer than 2 million people — but over the course of the Troubles, the sheer numbers of deaths and disappearances, imprisonment and injuries, left few ...
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate jurisdictions, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, both devolved regions of the United Kingdom. This partition of Ireland was confirmed when the Parliament of Northern Ireland exercised its right in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 to opt ...
A conflict among the House of Burke: 1534 Kildare Rebellion: 1569–73 First Desmond Rebellion: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland: 1579–83 Second Desmond Rebellion: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1594–1603 Nine Years' War: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1641–42 Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642 ...
The partition of Ireland. From the late 1960s to 1998, the Northern Ireland conflict (also known as the Troubles), was a civil war between Irish republican groups, who wanted Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and unite with the Republic of Ireland, and Ulster loyalist groups, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK.
The Troubles were a period of conflict in Northern Ireland involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British security forces and civilians. They are usually dated from the late 1960s to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) is a database containing information about conflict and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. The project began in 1996, with the website launching in 1997. The project is based within Ulster University at its Magee campus.
31 January - Terence McCafferty (37) and James McCloskey (29), both Catholic civilians, were shot dead during a gun attack by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) on a workers' hut at a Northern Ireland Electricity Service building site, Rush Park.
The shootings were the first British military fatalities in Northern Ireland since Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick was shot dead by the Provisional IRA in February 1997, during the Troubles. [26] The attack came days after a suggestion by Northern Ireland's police chief, Sir Hugh Orde , that the likelihood of a "terrorist" attack in Northern ...