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The Troubles; Political map of Ireland: Date: Late 1960s–1998 [a] [2] ... On 18 September 2023, the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 ...
The Troubles were a period of conflict in Northern Ireland involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British security forces and civilians. They are usually dated from the late 1960s to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
This category contains articles about military actions carried out by British security forces in the course of the Troubles (1969-1998), engagements between these forces and members of paramilitary organisations, engagements between republican and loyalist paramilitary organisations and attacks on British security facilities and troops by paramilitary forces during the same conflict.
The Warrenpoint ambush was the deadliest attack on the British Army during the Troubles and the Parachute Regiment's biggest loss since World War II, with sixteen paratroopers killed. [15] General Sir James Glover , Commander of British forces in Northern Ireland, later said it was "arguably the most successful and certainly one of the best ...
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
The capture of the sniper team was the single major success for the security forces in South Armagh in more than a decade, [44] and was arguably among the most important of the Troubles, [45] but by then, the IRA and Sinn Féin had achieved huge political gains towards their long-term goals. [46]
See 1886 Belfast riots, Bloody Sunday (1921) and The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922). Belfast saw the most intense violence of the August 1969 riots. Unlike Derry, Catholics were a minority in Belfast and mostly lived in enclaves surrounded by Protestant districts. [12]
In 1972 The Troubles had been ongoing in Northern Ireland for three years, [3] [4] with Irish Republican paramilitaries increasingly attacking the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British Army, and a level of societal violence & sectarian violence had appeared that had not been seen in the island of Ireland since the 1920s during the Irish Civil War.