The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

Taoiseach Jack Lynch's request followed many such demands by nationalists for the UN's engagement in Northern Ireland ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

Thirty six years ago today, during the 1969-98 Northern Ireland conflict, Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane was shot ...

The Protestant cleric and unionist leader remains one of the most distinctive and controversial figures in modern Irish history ...

Gleanings from departmental archives are pieces of jigsaw puzzles which illuminate decision- and policymaking, and the ...

Northern Ireland was engulfed in a civil conflict known as The Troubles. The country—only a small section of the island of ...

The Northern Irish Troubles began when civil disturbances tipped into widespread violence across a single week in August 1969. The bitter conflict between those who wanted Northern Ireland to ...

At least a year before August 1969, community tensions across Northern Ireland had been heating up, with civil rights marches and campaigns of civil disobedience. There had been violent clashes ...

Op Banner lasted almost 38 years between 14 August 1969 and 31 Jul 2007 - more than ... current personnel and veterans who deployed in Northern Ireland, MOD Civil Servants and Civilian Services ...