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The Troubles, also known as the Northern Ireland Conflict, was a political and nationalistic movement fueled by the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Protestant Unionists/loyalists wanted Northern Ireland to remain a part of the United Kingdom.
The Troubles was a period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted from the late 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Find out more about key moments in this conflict - a conflict with repercussions that are still being felt today.
May 15, 2017 · For 30 years, The Troubles tore Northern Ireland apart. These intense images reveal what life was like for those who lived through it. Thousands died — more than half of them civilians.
- John Kuroski
- Born Wednesbury, Staffordshire, 1939
- Born Larne, Co. Antrim, 1943
- Born Banbridge, 1909
- Born Belfast, 1938
- Born Belfast, 1965
- Born Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, 1945
- Born Belfast, 1969
- Born Hertfordshire, 1954
- Born London, 1932
Rita Donagh studied Fine Art at the University of Durham between 1956 and 1962. She taught at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where she met fellow artist Richard Hamilton whom she later married. In the 1960s her work was conceptual but by the 1970s the Troubles was a major focus in many of her artworks. Due to her Irish ancestry and the polit...
Graham Gingles studied at both the Belfast and Hornsey Colleges of Art. He began his artistic career as a painter but is best known for his distinctive sculpture in the form of meticulously constructed boxes. Gingles has commented that at the beginning of the Troubles he found it necessary ‘to find an imagery that was not reportage, that was not gr...
After attending the Belfast College of Art, Frederick Edward McWilliam left Northern Ireland in 1928 to continue his training at the Slade School of Art, London. He lived and worked for most of his life in London, teaching sculpture at the Slade until 1968. McWilliam often worked in series. Woman in Bomb Blast 1974/1 is the last and largest sculptu...
Joseph McWilliams attended the Belfast College of Art and went on to teach there until his retirement in 1989. Since 1986 he has run the Cavehill Gallery in North Belfast with his artist wife Catherine McWilliams. McWilliams responded to the Troubles from the outset, reacting, as he said in 1989, 'simply and safely in paint'. He sometimes incorpora...
Philip Napier studied at Manchester Polytechnic, Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall and the University of Ulster where he was awarded an MA in Fine Art in 1989. Known for his work in sculpture, installations and performance, he is currently Head of the Faculty of Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Ballad No. 1 is based on o...
Victor Sloan studied painting at Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Photographic Society. His work is highly distinctive, created through altering photographs and negatives by painting, marking and scoring. Sloan usually produces works as a series. Made in the aftermath of the Anglo-Irish Ag...
Rita Duffy received her MA in Fine Art at the University of Ulster in 1986. Her work, in which she uses a range of media, is often autobiographical and addresses subjects relating to Irish identity, history and politics. She has also commented that ‘women’s issues and feminism seem obvious and important concerns for me as an artist’. In Security Ba...
John Keane studied painting at the Camberwell School of Art in London. Conflict has been a consistent theme in his work, driven by an interest in ‘why human beings want to kill one another for political ends’. Keane has travelled across the world to record conflict in situations such as Angola and the Gulf War. The Other Cheek? is from a similarly ...
Ken Howard studied painting at the Hornsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art. On two occasions, in 1973 and 1978, he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to travel with and record the British Army in Northern Ireland. Ulster Crucifixion, which Howard considers his finest work, is styled after an altarpiece. He has combined a repres...
Apr 9, 2018 · The thirty-year civil war – a chaotic period known as “The Troubles” – officially began in 1968 but the bubbling violence which marked it was laden with deep-rooted divisions. Indeed, the conflict could be said to have begun 800 years prior, when the Normans first invaded Ireland and heralded centuries of direct English rule.
The Time of Troubles (Russian: Смутное время, romanized: Smutnoye vremya), also known as Smuta (Russian: Смута, lit. 'troubles'), was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.
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Aug 15, 2019 · RUC officers followed by loyalist protesters attempt to invade the Bogside leading to rioting which goes on all night. 112 people are taken to hospital, 91 policemen and 21 civilians are injured ...
