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the Troubles: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Northern Ireland conflict
Date 1968 - 1998
Location Belfast • Londonderry • Ulster
Participants British army • Irish Republican Army • Northern Ireland • Royal Ulster Constabulary • United Kingdom

Photos

Everyday life during the Troubles
A long Peace Wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, covered with colorful political murals and graffiti, with trees lining the sidewalk and a wire fence on top of the wall.
British paratroopers detain a group of civilians with hands raised against a wall during Bloody Sunday in Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Denis Bradley and Terrence O'Keefe stand on the left.
A peace protest in Northern Ireland
Bobby Sands's funeral procession
Signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)
Concluding the Good Friday Agreement
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Timeline

British soldiers and armored vehicles stand behind a barricade on a debris-strewn street in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, with civilians gathered in the distance before the Bloody Sunday shooting.
Bloody Sunday
January 30, 1972
Destruction of the Mulberry Bush
Birmingham pub bombings
November 21, 1975
Omagh bombing
Omagh bombing
August 15, 1998