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Battle of the Boyne
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Start of the troubles
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Provisional IRA
Official IRA -
Internment is the practice of detaining or imprisoning individuals without a trial or due process.
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U2 song
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They agreed to set up a power-sharing government of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. But the extremists on both sides refused to accept power-sharing.
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planting bombs in pubs, hotels, tube stations, anywhere where there were crowds of people. No warning was given and many people were killed or wounded, but by the end of 1975 the police had caught most of the bombers.
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For years there had been bitter discontent in the Maze prison outside Belfast, where suspected terrorists were held. The IRA prisoners demanded to be treated as political prisoners, and when their demand was refused, they threw off their prison clothes and went about wrapped in blankets. They also “painted” the walls of their cells with their own filth. When that failed, some of them went on hunger strike, refusing to take any food whatsoever.
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attempt to bring Protestants and Catholics together.
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gave the Eire government the right to make comments and proposals about affairs in Northern Ireland.
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The Agreement pleased Catholic Dublin, but Protestants in the North were so worried and angered by this “interference” that in 1986 the Assembly had to be dissolved.
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10 explosions, 20 shootings, 3 civilian deaths, 45 reported injuries every month
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end of the troubles
