The second misconception is that the conflict is about religion, republicans being Catholic and loyalists being Protestant. It is not religion that lies at the root of the Troubles. The conflict ...
Particularly in the early years of the Troubles, a substantial number were specifically targeted because of their religion. Loyalist paramilitaries also repeatedly selected targets simply on the ...
The 1970s were statistically the worst times of the Troubles. There were 2,096 killings between 1970 and 1979, and 68 of ...
The Troubles officially began with an uprising ... burned from their homes by loyalist mobs,” and that there are “refugees ...
Street in Belfast affiliated with the loyalist group the Red Hand Commando If you’ve ... “One of my motivations for doing this was to increase the understanding of the Troubles here, on this side of ...
Nearly a third of the residents in a Newtownards housing estate “tormented” by a campaign of intimidation have sought ...
This was a post-Good Friday Agreement oral history archive which saw leading Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries ... may lie in the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act ...
The second misconception is that the conflict is about religion, republicans being Catholic and loyalists being Protestant. It is not religion that lies at the root of the Troubles. The conflict ...