The Troubles were a period of conflict in Northern Ireland involving republican and

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paramilitaries, the British security forces, and civil rights groups. They are usually dated from the late 1960s through to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. However, sporadic violence continued after this point. Those that continued violence past this point are referred to as "

dissident republican Dissident republicans, renegade republicans, anti-Agreement republicans or anti-ceasefire republicans ( ga, poblachtach easaontach) are Irish republicans who do not support the current peace agreements in Northern Ireland. The agreements follow ...

s and loyalists". The Troubles, internationally known as the Northern Ireland conflict, claimed roughly 3500 lives.

Prior to 1960

Since

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, the IRA had started a number of terrorist operations in Northern Ireland designed at bringing about their goal of a United Ireland. The intensity of this activity increased towards the end of 1941, where the IRA decided to step up its campaign of attacks in Northern Ireland.CAIN: Chronology of Key Events in Irish History, 1800 to 1967; section 1941 and onwards
cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2018. In response to this activity the Unionist authorities under John Miller Andrews introduced internment and using provisions of the Emergency Powers Act, instituted increasingly restrictive policies in Northern Ireland. This pattern of paramilitary violence, followed by increasingly restrictive measures on the behalf of the authorities came to define the run-up to the Troubles.

1960–1969

Since 1964, civil rights activists had been protesting against the discrimination against

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and

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by the Ulster Protestant and unionist government of Northern Ireland. The civil rights movement called for: ' one man, one vote'; the end to

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electoral boundaries; the end to discrimination in employment and in the allocation of public housing; repeal of the Special Powers Act; and the disbanding of the Ulster Special Constabulary.

1966

1968

1969–1970

1969

1970–1979

1970

1971

1972

January–June

July–December

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980–1989

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990–1999

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

Post-Troubles incidents (1999–present)

1999

2000–2007

2000

2001

2002

2005

2006

2007

References

External links

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CAIN project
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