London, United Kingdom: Northern Ireland The nationalist and federalist communities were torn apart by three decades of violence, which ended with the Good Friday Agreement signed 23 years earlier.
The majority Protestant federalists in the province supported the continuation of British rule. Catholic Republican wanted equal rights and reunification with the rest of Ireland.
Here is an overview of “The Troubles” during which more than 3,500 people died.
Violence erupted in 1968 when police used force against peaceful Catholic civil rights demonstrations in Londonderry and called for an end to discrimination in voting, jobs and housing.
The situation worsens as Catholic meetings and demonstrations end in conflict with the police and Protestants.
As communal violence gripped the province in August 1969, British troops were deployed.
In 1970 a Catholic guerrilla group, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), began a campaign of bombing and gunfire against soldiers.
Federalist paramilitary groups react, mostly by killing Catholics, driving a wedge between the communities.
Violence erupted after January 1972 when 13 people were killed”bloody SundayBritish soldiers opened fire on a peaceful Catholic civil rights march in Londonderry. A protester later died.
London suspended the provincial government of Northern Ireland three months later, leading to decades of direct rule from the British capital.
In 1974 the IRA expanded the bombing campaign in Britain with attacks on pubs in Guildford, Woolwich and Birmingham, which killed about 30 people.
It also kills major British establishments, including Queen Elizabeth IIHis cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten in rural north western Ireland in 1979.
The same day 18 British soldiers were killed in an IRA ambush at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland.
A turning point occurs in 1981 when IRA prisoner Bobby Sands and nine fellows, seeking political prisoner status, die on a hunger strike at Maze Prison.
His death attracted global sympathy for the Republican cause.
The following year Sinn Féin, the political wing of the IRA, won its first seat in parliament. A year after Gerry Adams was elected party president.
IRA continues to strike in England with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher In 1984, five people were killed in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during a Conservative Party convention.
Seven years later he attempted to assassinate his successor, John Major, in a mortar attack at 10 Downing Street.
Two major bombings in 1992 and 1993 killed four people and caused major damage to the City of London financial centre.
Attempts to establish power-sharing executive founders by Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1973 following a federalist general strike.
Thatcher signed an Anglo-Irish agreement in 1985 accepting Dublin’s say in the affairs of Northern Ireland.
Behind the scenes talks lead to an IRA ceasefire in 1994, which breaks out as talks stall.
In July 1997, after Tony Blair After Labor became prime minister, a new ceasefire was announced by the IRA to Sinn Féin at the negotiating table.
The Good Friday Agreement is signed on 10 April 1998 between the political parties of London, Dublin and the main Northern Ireland.
This leads to a new semi-autonomous Northern Ireland with a power-sharing government between Protestants and Catholics.
The deadliest single atrocity of the period comes four months after the settlement when 29 people are killed in a bomb planted by a dissident group, the Real IRA, in the city of Omagh.
The effect of the attack is to strengthen rather than weaken the peace agreement.
The majority Protestant federalists in the province supported the continuation of British rule. Catholic Republican wanted equal rights and reunification with the rest of Ireland.
Here is an overview of “The Troubles” during which more than 3,500 people died.
Violence erupted in 1968 when police used force against peaceful Catholic civil rights demonstrations in Londonderry and called for an end to discrimination in voting, jobs and housing.
The situation worsens as Catholic meetings and demonstrations end in conflict with the police and Protestants.
As communal violence gripped the province in August 1969, British troops were deployed.
In 1970 a Catholic guerrilla group, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), began a campaign of bombing and gunfire against soldiers.
Federalist paramilitary groups react, mostly by killing Catholics, driving a wedge between the communities.
Violence erupted after January 1972 when 13 people were killed”bloody SundayBritish soldiers opened fire on a peaceful Catholic civil rights march in Londonderry. A protester later died.
London suspended the provincial government of Northern Ireland three months later, leading to decades of direct rule from the British capital.
In 1974 the IRA expanded the bombing campaign in Britain with attacks on pubs in Guildford, Woolwich and Birmingham, which killed about 30 people.
It also kills major British establishments, including Queen Elizabeth IIHis cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten in rural north western Ireland in 1979.
The same day 18 British soldiers were killed in an IRA ambush at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland.
A turning point occurs in 1981 when IRA prisoner Bobby Sands and nine fellows, seeking political prisoner status, die on a hunger strike at Maze Prison.
His death attracted global sympathy for the Republican cause.
The following year Sinn Féin, the political wing of the IRA, won its first seat in parliament. A year after Gerry Adams was elected party president.
IRA continues to strike in England with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher In 1984, five people were killed in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during a Conservative Party convention.
Seven years later he attempted to assassinate his successor, John Major, in a mortar attack at 10 Downing Street.
Two major bombings in 1992 and 1993 killed four people and caused major damage to the City of London financial centre.
Attempts to establish power-sharing executive founders by Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1973 following a federalist general strike.
Thatcher signed an Anglo-Irish agreement in 1985 accepting Dublin’s say in the affairs of Northern Ireland.
Behind the scenes talks lead to an IRA ceasefire in 1994, which breaks out as talks stall.
In July 1997, after Tony Blair After Labor became prime minister, a new ceasefire was announced by the IRA to Sinn Féin at the negotiating table.
The Good Friday Agreement is signed on 10 April 1998 between the political parties of London, Dublin and the main Northern Ireland.
This leads to a new semi-autonomous Northern Ireland with a power-sharing government between Protestants and Catholics.
The deadliest single atrocity of the period comes four months after the settlement when 29 people are killed in a bomb planted by a dissident group, the Real IRA, in the city of Omagh.
The effect of the attack is to strengthen rather than weaken the peace agreement.
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