The Troubles
October 5, 1968 – April 10, 1998
Related events (1 degree away • 2 degrees away)
Conflict in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic nationalists and republicans, who wanted a united Ireland, and mainly Protestant unionists and loyalists, with British security forces deployed. About 3,500 people were killed before the Good Friday Agreement.
Location
- Belfast
Entities involved
- United Kingdom
- Provisional Irish Republican Army Irish republicans
- Sinn Féin Irish republicans