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History > 20th century > Northern Ireland > The Troubles
The Independent
Tuesday 27 March 2007
L to R:
Ian Paisley and
Gerry Adams
A booby-trap car bomb kills
Constable Ronan Kerr
outside his home in Omagh
April 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/11/gerry-adams-offers-talk-dissidents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/04/omagh-bomb-informant-call-sinn-fein
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/04/editorial-ireland-murder-ronan-kerr
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/04/omagh-bomb-politics-stormont-nationalism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/03/omagh-bomb-policy-chief-tribute
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/03/raf-budget-defence-dalton-libya
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/02/omagh-booby-trap-bomb-policeman-killed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/02/omagh-murder-officer-1998-atrocity
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/02/us-irish-bomb-idUSTRE7311X520110402
Republican attacks 2008-2009
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/03/10/NIRELAND_EVENTS.pdf
Peace
protests across Northern Ireland
Wednesday 11 March 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/northern-ireland-peace-protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/ireland-peace-rallies-murders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/11/gordon-brown-northern-ireland-murders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2009/mar/11/northern-ireland-peace-protest-rally?picture=344454320
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2009/mar/11/policeman-murder-northern-ireland
PC Stephen Paul Carroll is shot dead
by dissident republicans, the Continuity IRA,
at Lismore Manor, Craigavon, County Armagh
9 March 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/ireland-peace-rallies-murders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/northern-ireland-violence-fear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/ira-peace-threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/11/northern-ireland-peace-process
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5884412.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5884203.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/
leading-article-politics-and-policing-can-defeat-this-sectarian-menace-1641889.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/4970459/
Northern-Ireland-attacks-Policemans-widow-denounces-futility-of-his-death.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7934426.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7935734.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7936622.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7968000/7968956.stm
Sapper Mark Quinsey, 23, and Sapper Patrick Azimkar, 21,
are
shot dead
at
the gates of Massereene Army base,
Antrim, Northern Ireland
Saturday 7 March 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8553776.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8162266.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/cartoon/2009/mar/10/northern-ireland-attacks-steve-bell
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5873840.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brown-in-northern-ireland-terror-summit-1640407.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/4961591/Antrim-Real-IRA-attack-Murdered-soldiers-named.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/09/real-ira-murders-massereene-soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/09/northern-ireland-soldiers-azimkar-quinsey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/09/massereene-security-officer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/09/brown-arrives-massereene-barracks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/09/gerry-adams-sinn-fein-soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/faq-northern-ireland-shootings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/09/british-soldiers-killed-northern-ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2009/mar/09/northernireland-northernireland?picture=344332207
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7936622.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7968000/7968956.stm
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/PeopleInDefence/
SappersPatrickAzimkarAndMarkQuinseyKilledInNorthernIreland.htm
The full extent of a secret 20-year
"back channel"
between the British government and the IRA is revealed
2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/18/northernireland.past
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/18/northernireland.northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/18/northernireland.past1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/audio/2008/mar/18/watt.powell.part2
Devolution
Deal to restore Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration
26 March 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2074614,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1572754.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1572691.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1572690.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1572694.ece
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,2043654,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2043565,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2043537,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1570371.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1570278.ece
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,2043078,00.html
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/malachi_odoherty/2007/03/the_popular_mood_in_belfast.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,2043260,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,2043246,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,2043251,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,2043227,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6496065.stm
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0326/breaking2.htm
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/article2393950.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=
1INZ3SNTXIGURQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/03/26/nulster226.xml
Operation Banner
1969-2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2138980,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2138431,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2138491,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2138447,00.html
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mick_fealty/2007/07/about_turn.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jul/31/northernireland?picture=330305298
IRA turncoat >
Denis Donaldson's murder 5 April 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1747507,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1747017,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2119821,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2119600,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2119379,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2119128,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2093892,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1936970,00.html
Orange march
The first loyalist march in Dublin since Partition
25 February 2006
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1718248,00.html
Ken Barrett,
the loyalist gunman convicted of killing
the Belfast solicitor
Pat Finucane,
is freed under the terms of the
Good Friday agreement,
after serving three years
in jail 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1781605,00.html
Lord Merlyn-Rees
1920-2006
Labour home secretary and Northern Ireland secretary in the 70s
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1679857,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1680013,00.html
The St
Andrews agreement 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1923849,00.html
The
Bloody Sunday inquiry
/
Saville inquiry
sat between
April 1998 and January 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/11/saville-inquiry-revelations-bloody-sunday
"... it is
expedient that a Tribunal be established
for inquiring
into a definite matter of urgent public importance,
namely the
events on Sunday 30th January 1972
which led to
loss of life in connection
with the
procession in Londonderry on that day,
taking
account of any new information relevant to events on that day"
Resolution of the House of Commons, 30th January 1998,
and of the
House of Lords, 2nd February 1998
http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/15/bloody-sunday-inquiry-key-findings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jun/15/bloodysunday-northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/11/saville-inquiry-revelations-bloody-sunday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/10/bloody-sunday-inquiry-northern-ireland
http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/
Belfast riots
September 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1568875,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1568845,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1777977,00.html
Decommissioning
of IRA arms September 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1578667,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1578767,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1578828,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1578815,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1561959,00.html
IRA declares end to armed struggle 28
July 2005
The IRA formally orders
an end to its armed campaign
and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/newsid_4948000/4948188.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/newsid_4948000/4948188.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1537901,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1537995,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1538072,00.html
Robert
McCartney murder January 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/sep/15/northernireland.angeliquechrisafis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/27/ukcrime.northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/mar/08/northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/feb/13/northernireland.focus
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/template/2.0-0/element/
pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id=5881060&&offset=0&§ionName=News
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1480431,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1498877,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1440592,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1411855,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4232753.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4364882.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/31/newsid_4922000/4922296.stm
The Troubles A Chronology of the
Conflict 1968-2003
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch68.htm
IRA
begins decommissioning weapons 23
October 2001
The
Northern Ireland peace process reaches an historic breakthrough
as
the IRA announces they have begun decommissioning their weapons
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489099.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489099.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,579585,00.html
Violence at Holy Cross school
September 2001
Catholic schoolchildren are
attacked by Protestants
as they make their way to a
disputed school in north Belfast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/04/qanda.schools
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4252062,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/04/qanda.schools
The last of Ulster's 428 political prisoners
are released
from
Maze prison
Friday July 28, 2000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,347870,00.html
Loyalist killer Michael Stone
is freed from
Maze
prison 24 July 2000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/newsid_2515000/2515041.stm
NI power-sharing executive appointed
29 November 1999
Northern Ireland moves a step closer to ending
25 years of
direct rule from London
after the election of a Northern Ireland Assembly
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/29/newsid_4067000/4067119.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/29/newsid_4067000/4067119.stm
Terror group says Ulster war is over
INLA confirms ceasefire
amid fear of violence from republican splinter groups
August 1999
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,204838,00.html
Rosemary Nelson murder 15 March 1999
Lurgan
solicitor Rosemary Nelson died
after a
booby-trap bomb planted by loyalists exploded under her car
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12972857
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2172547,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2053425,00.html
http://www.rosemarynelsoninquiry.org/
Real IRA announce ceasefire 8
September 1998
The dissident republican group
behind Northern Ireland's worst atrocity
declares its violence at an end.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_2503000/2503633.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_2503000/2503633.stm
Omagh
bombing
Northern Ireland's worst-ever terrorist attack August 17, 1998
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/omagh
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/5476676/
Omagh-bombing-judgment-relatives-win-landmark-civil-case.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/08/omagh-real-ira-leaders-liable
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/08/omagh-bombing-real-ira-leaders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/apr/02/northernireland.henrymcdonald
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/dec/19/northernireland?picture=331849502
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jul/26/northernireland
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/template/2.0-0/element/
pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id=5881060&&offset=0&§ionName=News
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3083060.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2231141,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230858,00.html
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mick_fealty/2007/12/omaghs_last_victim_justice.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3078971.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3079971.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230587,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230590,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230247,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230387,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230357,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,617648,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2230369,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/dec/19/northernireland?picture=331849502
http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,,637512,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,638679,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,200430,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,200426,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,615238,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,637514,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1492979,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1019591,00.html
Good Friday Agreement 10 April 1998
The Good Friday Agreement
was little short of an historic breakthrough.
The 65-page document, signed in 1998,
sought to address relationships within Northern Ireland;
between Northern Ireland and the Republic;
and between both parts of Ireland and England, Scotland and Wales.
The process, however, was gruelling.
The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble insisted that UK Prime Minister Tony
Blair
amend the agreement to ensure that no one
in the proposed Northern Ireland Assembly could take office
if it had links to paramilitary groups still engaged in violence.
Mr Blair refused to make amendments
but offered an assurance that politicians linked to paramilitaries
who refused to hand over weapons
would not hold office in a Northern Ireland government.
He also promised decommissioning would have to begin immediately
after the Assembly came into being.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/good_friday.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/10/newsid_2450000/2450823.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/good_friday.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4079267.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/07_12_04_ni_agreement_01.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/agreement/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4079267.stm
http://www.pixunlimited.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2001/08/01/westonpark.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1488270,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,1553002,00.html
Robert Hamill murder 27 April 1997
Mr
Hamill, a 25-year-old Catholic,
was
beaten to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown, County Armagh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12597209
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2053425,00.html
Billy
Wright murder December 27 1997
The Loyalist Volunteer Force founder
was shot dead inside the Maze prison
by two members of the Irish National Liberation Army
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/14/billy-wright-killing-report-mi5
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2010/sep/14/billy-wright-maze
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/sep/14/northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2010/sep/14/billy-wright-northern-ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/30/ian-paisley-junior-fined-billy-wright
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/13/billy-wright-assassin-maze-security
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2053425,00.html
Bomb
blast destroys London bus 1996
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/18/newsid_4165000/4165719.stm
The
largest ever IRA bomb to hit the British mainland
explodes in Manchester injuring at least 200 people
15 June 1996
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1239250,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1239249,00.html
an IRA bomb
explodes in London's Docklands 1996
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1409105,00.html
Northern Ireland's Troubles > Timeline > 1968-1995
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/11/northern-ireland-making-peace-past
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/11/northern-ireland-terrorists-miscarriages-justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/20/saville-inquiry-killings-soldiers-troubles-northern-ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/20/call-for-ballymurphy-massacre-inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/world/europe/16nireland.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/4968645/Northern-Ireland-A-history-of-the-Troubles.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/template/2.0-0/element/
pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id=5881060&&offset=0&§ionName=News
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/flash/0,6189,344683,00.html
The
Downing Street Declaration and the IRA ceasefire
1993-94
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/69283.stm
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/low/events/northern_ireland/history/69283.stm
John
Major and Albert Reynolds sign a peace declaration
15 December 1993
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1374198,00.html
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/docs/dsd151293.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/downing_street.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_Declaration
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/angloirish/jointdeclaration/default.asp
http://www.sdlp.ie/party/downingstdec.shtm
The Birmingham six are freed
after 16 years 14 March 1991
The Birmingham Six walk free
from jail
after their convictions for the
murder of 21 people
in two pubs are quashed by the
Court of Appeal.
Paddy Joe Hill, Hugh Callaghan,
Richard McIlkenny,
Gerry Hunter, Billy Power and
Johnny Walker,
who between them have served 96
years
for a crime they did not commit,
are released onto the streets
outside the Old Bailey in London at 1605 GMT.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1437228,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_2543000/2543613.stm
Two
IRA bombs explode in London,
killing one and injuring at least 40 people
18 February 1991
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1417542,00.html
Guildford Four released after 15 years
19 October 1989
The Guildford Four have their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal
following an
extensive inquiry into the original police investigation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/19/newsid_2490000/2490039.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/19/newsid_2490000/2490039.stm
murder of top Ulster RUC policemen Buchanan
and Breen 20 March
1989
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/11/ira-murders-claim-to-smithwick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/11/smithwick-tribunal-ian-hurst-analysis
Patrick Finucane,
a
Belfast civil rights lawyer, is murdered by
loyalist gunmen
working with British security forces Sunday, 12 February 1989
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/14/wikileaks-revelations-finucane-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/13/gerry-adams-mi5-offer-pat-finucane-murder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/13/wikileaks-legacy-distrust-finucane-killing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2110996,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2053425,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1677046.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1311707,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,739914,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1303592,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,938953,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,938973,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,938189,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/12/newsid_2540000/2540849.stm
Belfast's
Milltown cemetery massacre 16 March 1988
Convicted loyalist killer Michael Stone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_2523000/2523953.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,470460,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,974618,00.html
An IRA bomb kills 11 people and injures 63 in Enniskillen
8 November 1987
A
bomb explodes during a Remembrance Day service
at
Enniskillen in County Fermanagh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/8/newsid_2515000/2515113.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1346198,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/8/newsid_2515000/2515113.stm
German
bombing claimed by IRA March 1987
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1444085,00.html
The Hillsborough
agreement / Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1351744,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/nireland/referendum/
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/aia/
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/aia/aiadoc.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539849.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/68824.stm
Margaret Thatcher > Patrick Magee / the 'Brighton bomber' 1984-1986
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1235581,00.html
Brighton bombing during Conservative Party conference
12 October 1984
Cabinet survives IRA hotel blast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/oct/16/bartons-britain-brighton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/oct/13/brighton-bombing-magee
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2009/oct/13/brighton-bomb-margaret-thatcher
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1325470,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2531000/2531583.stm
A
car bomb explodes outside Harrods, killing five
17 December 1983
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1376054,00.html
Hunger strikes Bobby Sands
(1954-1981)
L to R: Tomboy Loudon, Gerry
Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands
pictured in the Long Kesh prison,
Northern Ireland.
Belfast Telegraph
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/
local-national/northern-ireland/bobby-sands-showed-little-interest-in-campaign-to-be-mp-16097036.html?action=Popup&ino=4
Bobby Sands funeral
1981
Belfast Telegraph
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/
local-national/northern-ireland/bobby-sands-showed-little-interest-in-campaign-to-be-mp-16097036.html?action=Popup&ino=9
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/may/16/cannesfilmfestival.northernireland1
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/
hunger-steve-mcqueen-95-mins-15-brof-time-and-the-city-terence-davies-72-mins-12a-983573.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/first-night-hunger-cannes-film-festival-829303.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7891210.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6660999.stm
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,1721872,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2728000/2728309.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/ni/hunger_strikes.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A51822849
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles/hungerstrikes/hunger.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/thatcher_margaret.shtml
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/low/events/northern_ireland/history/68779.stm
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1980-1989/Story/0,,108187,00.html
IRA bomb kills
Lord Mountbatten
(1900-1979) 27 August 1979
The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis
Mountbatten,
is killed by a bomb blast on
his boat in Ireland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_2511000/2511545.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_2511000/2511545.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mountbatten_lord_louis.shtml
The hardline republican terror
group INLA
kills the Conservative MP Airey
Neave (1916-1979)
in a car bomb in the House of
Commons car park 30 March 1979
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/newsid_2783000/2783877.stm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRneave.htm
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104085
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/mar/31/2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/newsid_2783000/2783877.stm
http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031488/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/11/northern-ireland-republican-group-disband
The Queen visits Northern Ireland
as part of her jubilee year tour
August 10 1977
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1280014,00.html
SAS hard men join attack on Ulster
anarchy 1976
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1970-1979/Story/0,,106915,00.html
TV presenter Ross McWhirter
shot dead 27 November 1975
Guinness Book of Records
co-founder and editor Ross McWhirter
is shot dead outside his North
London home by the provisional IRA,
after he had offered a £50,000
reward for information on terrorists
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_2528000/2528787.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/apr/21/guardianobituaries.obituaries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/apr/21/guardianobituaries.obituaries
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_2528000/2528787.stm
Birmingham pub bombings / The Birmingham six
21 November 1974
Bombs devastate two central
Birmingham pubs,
killing 19 people and injuring
over 180
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/21/newsid_2549000/2549953.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1358577,00.html
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/cartoons/douglas98c.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,730156,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/21/newsid_2549000/2549953.stm
Guildford pub bombing
/ The Guildford four
5 October 1974
Four people are killed and more
than 50 injured
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1409654,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1408973,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1330869,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four
http://www.film.u-net.com/Movies/Reviews/In_Name_Father.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/5/newsid_2492000/2492543.stm
King's
Cross and Euston stations bombings 10
September 1973
Two bombs at mainline stations
injured 13 people
and brought chaos to central
London.
The first explosion injured
five people at King's Cross.
Fifty minutes later
a second blast rocked a snack
bar at Euston station,
injuring a further eight people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_2504000/2504619.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1301700,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_2504000/2504619.stm
Northern Ireland
votes to remain part of the United Kingdom
9 March 1973
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1433717,00.html
Direct
rule from London March 1972
Direct rule was initiated in
response to increased violence in the province
and the apparent unwillingness of the ruling Unionist
politicians
to accommodate changes at that time.
It brought half a century of unionist control to an end
and effectively conceded that Northern Ireland
had become ungovernable from Belfast
because of the inability of the two communities to work
together
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/direct_rule.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/direct_rule.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/25/from-the-archives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1972/mar/25/past.ianaitken
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/11/northernireland
Bloody Sunday
13 unarmed civil rights protestors are shot dead
by British soldiers in Derry 30
January 1972
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/bloodysunday
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/northern_ireland/2010/bloody_sunday/default.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/20/bloody-sunday-saville-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/16/bloody-sunday-british-army
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10205628
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/7829208/
Bloody-Sunday-families-march-to-read-Saville-Inquiry-publication.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/7829557/
NEEDS-PICBloody-Sunday-Saville-Inquiry-Leo-Young-remembers-losing-his-brother.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/will-the-wounds-ever-be-healed-2000587.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/12year-5000page-report-aiming-to-unlock-the-truth-2000511.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/
don--mullan-i-shall-never-forget-the-silence-that-descended-on-my-native-town-2000510.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/world/europe/16nireland.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jun/15/bloodysunday-northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/15/bloody-sunday-report-victims-families
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/15/legacy-bloody-sunday-killings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/14/bloody-sunday-first-person-reflections
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/15/saville-inquiry-marks-milestone-to-peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/jun/10/bloodysunday-northernireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/15/bloody-sunday-report-victims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/13/bloody-sunday-inquiry-report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/14/bloody-sunday-guardian-archive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2010/jun/10/northern-ireland-bloody-sunday-interactive-map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/10/bloody-sunday-inquiry-northern-ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bloodysunday/flash/0,6189,184944,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bloodysunday/0,2759,181310,00.html
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/low/events/northern_ireland/history/64609.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1417596/
1972-the-year-of-Bloody-Sunday-direct-rule-from-London-and-a-humiliating-miners-strike.html
'Ballymurphy massacre'
11 people
are killed in West Belfast by the army August 1971
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/20/call-for-ballymurphy-massacre-inquiry
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8483497.stm
Internment 1971-75
Nearly 2,000 people are arrested and held
without trial on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/northern-ireland-timeline
The battle of the
Bogside 1969
A loyalist parade passing
through the nationalist Bogside area of Derry
on 12 August sparks two days of
rioting.
As sporadic violence spreads
across the province, troops are called in.
At first they are welcomed by
the Catholic community,
but sectarian violence
continues.
The Provisional IRA becomes
more active,
and the army increasingly
concentrates on fighting it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/northern-ireland-timeline
The civil rights movement
1968
Catholics complain of unfair
treatment
at the hands of a largely
Protestant political establishment,
saying among other things that
electoral boundaries
are gerrymandered to ensure
Protestant majorities.
On 5 October, a civil rights
march is stopped by the RUC.
Rioting follows and the
province's government agrees to undertake reforms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/northern-ireland-timeline
Partition 1922
Six counties in the north of the island opt to stay in the United Kingdom
when the rest of Ireland becomes independent and later a republic.
Many of the inhabitants are descended from Protestant settlers
brought in by James I in the 17th century,
although there is still a large Catholic minority,
just as there continues to be
a significant Protestant minority in the Republic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/northern-ireland-timeline
Lloyd George, the prime minister,
outlines the government's proposals for home rule in Ireland
1919
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/northern-ireland-timeline
Related
Anglonautes >
Vocabulary > Terrorism > Northern Ireland
Anglonautes > History > 20th century > UK > Margaret Thatcher
Anglonautes > History > Maps > Northern Ireland
Anglonautes > History > Maps and
flags > United Kingdom
Reuters > Factbox: Fraught
Anglo-Irish conflict goes back centuries
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/17/us-ireland-queen-britain-relations-idUSTRE74G2UI20110517
Reuters > Timeline: Long road to
Northern Irish settlement
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/17/us-ireland-queen-north-idUSTRE74G2UJ20110517
Reuters > Timeline: Worst bomb attacks on mainland Britain
1974-2001
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/16/us-britain-security-bombings-idUSTRE74F30T20110516
BBC > Timeline: Northern Ireland's
road to peace 1987-2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4072261.stm
BBC > Ireland timeline
1914-2011
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1038669.stm
The Guardian > Northern Ireland
timeline 1919-2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/08/northern-ireland-timeline
The Guardian > The Troubles > An
interactive history
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/flash/0,6189,344683,00.html
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