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Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland: 4 60 During a gun battle against both the Official IRA and Provisional IRA the British Army shot dead three civilians and ran one down. 1971, 9–11 August Ballymurphy massacre: Belfast, Northern Ireland: 11: unknown A mass shooting by the Parachute Regiment, British Army. 1971, 23 October 1971 Newry Killings
One example was the Glenanne gang—a secret alliance of loyalist militants, British soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers—that carried out a string of attacks against Irish Catholics and nationalists in an area of Northern Ireland known as the "murder triangle" and also carried out some ...
The 1881 act was introduced by William Ewart Gladstone. The Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881, [fn 1] (44 & 45 Vict. c. 4) also called the Coercion Act 1881 or the Crimes Act 1881, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which allowed for internment without trial of those suspected of involvement in the Land War in Ireland. [5]
Anti-Irish sentiment, also Hibernophobia, is bigotry against the Irish people or individuals. It can include hatred, oppression, persecution, as well as simple discrimination. Generally, it could be against the island of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, or Northern Ireland.
Members of the British government, the British administration in Ireland, and senior officers in the RIC tacitly supported reprisals as a way of encouraging the police and scaring the population into rejecting the IRA. [45] In December 1920, the government officially approved certain reprisals against property.
The law has been condemned by victims' families, human-rights groups and all major political parties on the island of Ireland, including British unionist and Irish nationalist. The Irish ...
Pages in category "British war crimes during the Irish War of Independence" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Victims' families, human rights organisations and both British unionist and Irish nationalist political parties have opposed the act, which has been subject to more than 20 legal challenges in ...