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The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, defined the start of the Troubles as 1 January 1966 for the purposes of the act. [ 71 ]
Some historians peg the real beginning of the Troubles to the events of August 1969, when a loyalist parade in Derry sparked three days of rioting and violent reprisals.
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.
The Battle of the Bogside in August 1969 led to the deployment of the British army to Northern Ireland and the start of what became known as the Troubles. Video: Enda O'Dowd & Ronan McGreevy
The Troubles, sometimes known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, claimed roughly 3500 lives. Prior to 1960. Since partition, the IRA had started a number of operations in Northern Ireland designed at bringing about their goal of a United Ireland.
The Troubles—a term long used as a euphemism for violent conflict—brought decades of riots and bloody clashes between pro-British Protestants and Catholics bent on national independence to the...
How did Northern Ireland descend into the cycle of violence that marked the period known as the 'Troubles', and what was done to find a solution?
But weeks turned to years and Operation Banner, as the Army refers to the Troubles, lasted from 1969 to 2007, costing it hundreds of lives. Soldiers were initially welcomed into parts of...
The Troubles. Troops were sent to Northern Ireland as peacekeepers in 1969. They ended up staying there until 2007 in what became the British Army's longest ever deployment.
Although more than one violently disrupted political march has been pointed to as the starting point of the Troubles, it can be argued that the catalyzing event occurred on October 5, 1968, in Derry, where a march had been organized by the NICRA to protest discrimination and gerrymandering.