Marked by street fighting, sensational bombings, sniper attacks, roadblocks, and internment without trial, the confrontation had the characteristics of a civil war, notwithstanding its textbook categorization as a “low-intensity conflict.” Some 3,600 people were killed and more than 30,000 more were wounded before a peaceful solution, which involved the governments of both the United Kingdom and Ireland, was effectively reached in 1998, leading to a power-sharing arrangement in the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont.
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Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe.
Chronology: 20th century
Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education
Link: https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Troubles-Northern-Ireland-history
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Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Language: English
Date: 1968-1998
Owner: Filippo Galletti (Modernalia)
Copyright: Encyclopedia Britannica
Abstract: Also called Northern Ireland conflict, it was a violent conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland.
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