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- In all, 186 children aged 16 and under, including four unborn, were killed between 1969 and 2006, among them children including Jim Dorrian who were knocked down by British army vehicles in Belfast and Derry in 1970-71.
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A mother from west Belfast is interviewed at Gormanston Camp in County Meath. This was August 1971, when internment without trial was introduced and 10 people were shot dead in Ballymurphy....
A further 79 people have been killed. This figure includes 12 Republican prisoners who have died while on hunger strike, 2 in Britain in 1974 and 1976, and 10 in Northern Ireland during 1981.
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Apr 13, 2015 · The majority of those 'junior' members of the Fianna na hEireann and Cumann na gCailini killed in the Troubles died by accidental discharges of weapons or bombs, some during what were described...
- Definition
- Origins
- Civil Rights to Armed Conflict
- The Insurgency Phase
- The Mid 1970s Violence
- Sunningdale and The Ulster Workers Council Strike
- Ulsterisation, The Prison Struggle and The Hunger Strikes
- The ‘Long War’
- The Peace Process
- Costs
The conflict in Northern Ireland was generally referred to in Ireland during its course as ‘The Troubles’ – a euphemistic folk name that had also been applied to earlier bouts of political violence. This name had the advantage that it did not attach blame to any of the participants and thus could be used neutrally. Republicans, particularly support...
Northern Ireland was created in 1920 under the Government of Ireland Act, due to Ulster unionist lobbying to be excluded from Home Rule for Ireland. Northern Ireland comprised six north eastern counties of Ireland in the province of Ulster. It left out three Ulster counties with large Catholic and nationalist majorities (Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan...
In 1966 elements of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, radical left groups and the Republican Clubs founded the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. Their aim was to end the discrimination against Catholicswithin Northern Ireland. However violence regularly broke out at their marches, notably at a People’s Democracymarch from Belfast to Derry...
By far the worst year of the ‘Troubles’ was 1972, when 480 people lost their lives. The year opened with ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Derryin which 14 marchers against internment were shot dead by the British Army on January 30. This massacre gave massive impetus to militant republicans. The Provisional IRA especially upped their campaign to its greatest int...
By 1973 the many-sided conflict showed no signs of ending. Although the death toll fell from 1972 to 1973 (480 to 255) it remained high throughout the 1970s, with over 2,000 having diedby the end of the decade. The IRA began to back away from large scale armed encounters with British forces after their ‘no go’ zones of Belfast and Derry were taken ...
In 1973 a major effort was made by the British government to find a political solution to the conflict. In November of that year an agreement was signed between the major political parties (nationalist SDLP and the Unionist Party) in Northern Ireland, known as the Sunningdale Agreement. It contained provision for power sharing between nationalists ...
In the late 1970s, the British government, despairing of a political settlement, tried to find a security solution to reduce political violence to ‘an acceptable level’ in the words of one Northern Secretary. Their strategy was to try to undermine the IRA’s claim that they were fighting a war of national liberation by two means. The first was so-ca...
Throughout the 1980s the conflict sputtered on. The IRA had a change of leadership in the late 1970s as southern leaders such as Ruari O Bradaigh were replaced by younger northerners such as Gerry Adams. Adams and his colleagues devised a strategy known as the Long War, in which the IRA would be reorganised into small cells, more difficult to penet...
By the late 1980s there were signs that republicans were looking for an end to the conflict. There were talks between Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and SDLP leader John Hume and privately between republicans and the British and Irish governments. In 1994 the Provisional IRA declared a unilateral ceasefire. This was followed six weeks later by a ceas...
The violence of the ‘Troubles’ is still open to partisan interpretation. Republican paramilitaries killed significantly more people than any other actor (some 2,000 of the 3,500 deaths). State forces were responsible for 368 deaths (including 6 by Irish state forces) and loyalists for over 1,000. (See here) Even if, as many republicans argue, state...
The most frequent cause of death in the Troubles in both children under the age of eighteen and those under the age of 25 is shooting, followed by explosions, as is shown in Table 9. Together these account for 224 or 87% of all deaths of children under the age of eighteen.
About 257 of those killed were children under the age of seventeen, representing 7.2% of the total, [301] while 274 children under the age of eighteen were killed during the conflict. [ 302 ] It has been the subject of dispute whether some individuals were members of paramilitary organisations.
