• From 6 to 11 July 1997 there were mass protests, fierce riots and gun battles in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland. Irish nationalists/republicans...
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  • be sent to Northern Ireland. The British government held an inquiry into the riots, and the reserve police force was disbanded. The riots led to a split...
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    nationalist riots against the parade and loyalist counter-riots against its banning. In 1995, 1996, and 1997, there were several weeks of prolonged rioting throughout...
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  • The following are a list of riots that have occurred in Northern Ireland. Hepburn, A.C (January 1990). "The Belfast Riots of 1935". Social History. 15...
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  • people believed to have been abducted, murdered and secretly buried in Northern Ireland, the large majority of which occurred during the Troubles. The Independent...
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    NORAID (redirect from Irish Northern Aid)
    officially the Irish Northern Aid Committee, is an Irish American membership organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969...
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  • The Northern Ireland peace process includes the events leading up to the 1994 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire, the end of most of the...
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  • The 2005 Belfast riots were serious loyalist riots and civil disturbances in Belfast, Northern Ireland in September 2005. The violence broke out after...
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  • Events during the year 1997 in Northern Ireland. Secretary of State - Patrick Mayhew (until 3 May), Mo Mowlam (from 3 May) March - The first phase of the...
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  • dispute and on the 23rd, with rioting also occurring in October and November.[citation needed] 1997 Northern Ireland riots Drumcree conflict 2001 South...
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  • list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified...
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  • From 1969 until 1997, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed...
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    what is now Northern Ireland from June 1920 until June 1922, during and after the Irish War of Independence and the partition of Ireland. It was mainly...
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  • The Troubles were a period of conflict in Northern Ireland involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British security forces, and civil rights...
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    parole commission, not the court. On 5 July 1997, on the eve of the 1997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland, the British Army/RUC base was the scene of...
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  • Bogside was a large three-day riot that took place from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholic/Irish nationalist residents of...
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    The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest...
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  • IRA Army Council (category Provisional Irish Republican Army)
    the end of the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The Council had seven members, said by the British and Irish governments to have included...
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  • by the 10,000 explosions that had occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland up to that point. The IRA gave a telephone warning twenty minutes before...
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    standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland. The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant marches...
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  • 1713 – Dublin election riot (Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland) 1714 – Coronation riots, England 1715 – 1715 England riots 1726 – Riot in Dresden for two days...
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    Gerry Adams (category 21st-century writers from Northern Ireland)
    loyalist counter-demonstrations and the RUC. In August 1969, the Northern Ireland riots resulted in violence in Belfast, Derry and elsewhere. British troops...
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  • Marian Price (category Irish republicans)
    strike in a campaign to be repatriated to a prison in Northern Ireland. IRA prisoners in Ireland at the time had Special Category Status (similar to political...
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  • been fixed. When it was first deployed on duty in Northern Ireland during the 1969 Northern Ireland riots, the British Army was welcomed by many Catholics...
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  • Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith. Its members founded the revolutionary Irish Republic...
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    Protestants in Northern Ireland. Like other unionists, loyalists support the continued existence of Northern Ireland (and formerly all of Ireland) within the...
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  • deployed, at the request of the unionist government of Northern Ireland, in response to the August 1969 riots. Its role was to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary...
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  • by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). From the early 1970s, the IRA had been carrying out attacks in both Northern Ireland and England with the...
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    Protestant families to leave their homes in Belfast in the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969 The riots resulted in 275 buildings being destroyed or requiring...
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  • Burntollet Bridge incident (category Riots and civil disorder in Northern Ireland)
    attack on 4 January 1969 during the first stages of the Troubles of Northern Ireland. A People's Democracy march from Belfast to Derry was attacked by Ulster...
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