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In February 1978, the IRA bombed La Mon, a hotel restaurant in Comber, County Down. [165] The decade ended with a double attack by the IRA against the British. On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, while on holiday in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, was killed by a bomb planted on board his boat.
The Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum (Irish: Iarsmalann na Staire Poblachtach Éireannach), is a museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established in 2007 after years of campaigning by Eileen Hickey, who collected the exhibits. [1] The museum is based in Conway Mill in the Falls Road area of West Belfast. The site is a former ...
The Troubles in Belfast (1 C, 51 P) Pages in category "The Troubles in County Down" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The ethno-political conflict known as The Troubles began in 1969. In the early years of the Troubles, Catholics in Short Strand numbered about 6,000, while their Protestant neighbours totalled about 60,000. [13] The area was the scene of much violence; including rioting and attacks by both Irish republican and loyalist paramilitaries.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Troubles. The Troubles – historical ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted 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".
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McGurk's Bar bombing – the UVF exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians (including two children) and wounding seventeen others. This was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during the Troubles. [citation needed] 11 December
The county was administered by Down County Council from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973. [35] County Down is now served by the following local government districts: Ards and North Down; Newry, Mourne and Down (also serves part of County Armagh) Lisburn and Castlereagh (also serves part of County Antrim)