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William III crushes the Great Catholic revolution
Battle of the Boyne -
Creation of Orange society
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Poppy remembrance day
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IRA declared unlawful
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Orangemen wreck Lloyd George’s plan for unified Ireland
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Independence of Ireland
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IRA bomb attacks
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Northern-Ireland Riots
Start of the troubles -
IRA split in 2
Provisional IRA
Official IRA -
Brian Faulkner introduces internment
Internment is the practice of detaining or imprisoning individuals without a trial or due process. -
Bloody Sunday
U2 song -
Sunningdale meeting
They agreed to set up a power-sharing government of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. But the extremists on both sides refused to accept power-sharing. -
National strike by loyalist workers
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IRA terrorists went to Britain
planting bombs in pubs, hotels, tube stations, anywhere where there were crowds of people. No warning was given and many people were killed or wounded, but by the end of 1975 the police had caught most of the bombers. -
Law to arrest and hold suspects of terrorism
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Killing of Lord Mountbatten by IRA bomb
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10 Maze prisoners died during a hunger strike
For years there had been bitter discontent in the Maze prison outside Belfast, where suspected terrorists were held. The IRA prisoners demanded to be treated as political prisoners, and when their demand was refused, they threw off their prison clothes and went about wrapped in blankets. They also “painted” the walls of their cells with their own filth. When that failed, some of them went on hunger strike, refusing to take any food whatsoever. -
New democratic assembly
attempt to bring Protestants and Catholics together. -
Signing of the Anglo-Irish agreement
gave the Eire government the right to make comments and proposals about affairs in Northern Ireland. -
Dissolving of the democratic assembly
The Agreement pleased Catholic Dublin, but Protestants in the North were so worried and angered by this “interference” that in 1986 the Assembly had to be dissolved. -
One of the worst years in terms of terrorism
10 explosions, 20 shootings, 3 civilian deaths, 45 reported injuries every month -
Gibraltar killings
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Good friday agreement
end of the troubles
