Operation Banner, the name given to the army's support role for the police during the Troubles, lasted for 38 years. It was the longest continuous campaign in the history of the British Army.

She was suspected of being a tout - or an informant for the British Army - and during the peak of the The Troubles, suspicion was all it took to be taken away for good. The Irish Republican Army ...

Photo: Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images; A soldier on patrol walks past IRA graffiti sprayed ... “One of my motivations for doing this was to increase the understanding of the Troubles here, on ...