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In the 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement, peace has held in Northern Ireland, but those who lived through the Troubles won’t forget them
Topics specifically related to the decade 1960s in the music of Ireland, i.e. in the years 1960 to 1969. 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; ... Wexford Festival Opera;
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 ...
The PIRA exploded a 2000 lb bomb at the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Laboratory in South Belfast. The laboratory was obliterated, seven hundred houses were damaged, and 20 people were injured. The explosion could be heard from over 16 km away. It was one of the largest bombs to be detonated during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [141]
1960s in Irish music (8 C, 8 P) P. 1960s in Irish politics (13 C, 2 P) R. ... Pages in category "1960s in Ireland" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Troubles. The Troubles – historical ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an "irregular war" or "low-level war".
The Clonoe Ambush was a military action between the British Army and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) that occurred during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.On 16 February 1992, an IRA unit which had attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) security base in the village of Coalisland in County Tyrone, was ambushed shortly afterwards by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the grounds ...
Burntollet Bridge was the setting for an attack on 4 January 1969 during the first stages of the Troubles of Northern Ireland. [1] [2] A People's Democracy march from Belfast to Derry was attacked by Ulster loyalists whilst passing through Burntollet.