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The Troubles was a period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted from the late 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Find out more about key moments in this conflict - a conflict with repercussions that are still being felt today.
7 cze 2024 · the Troubles, violent sectarian conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland.
9 lut 2015 · The Northern Ireland conflict was a thirty year bout of political violence, low intensity armed conflict and political deadlock within the six north-eastern counties of Ireland that formed part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
13 sie 2019 · The conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles lasted almost 30 years and cost the lives of more than 3,500 people. In August 1969, the UK government sent troops to impose control....
8 kwi 2022 · EXPLAINER. What were the Troubles that ravaged Northern Ireland? Driven by longstanding enmities between Catholics and Protestants over British rule, the conflict pitted neighbor against...
The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for 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".
Paramilitary groups on both sides, like the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) operated outside the law, using violence and terrorism to impose their political will. For three decades these groups struggled for ascendancy as the Troubles in Northern Ireland raged.
