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1969: How the Troubles Started in Northern Ireland
The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...
The Northern Echo13d
British Army veterans of Northern Ireland Troubles march on Westminster
Veterans who served in the British Army during the Northern Ireland troubles have marched on Parliament calling for the retention of the Legacy Act. It comes as the current Labour Government is to ...
Texarkana Gazette5d
Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet of nature and 'the Troubles,' dies at 85
was his final reading in the U.S.) "He wrote about the Troubles," Waters continued, invoking the term used to characterize the sectarian strife in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the ...
The Independent8d
Cost of dealing with Northern Ireland’s past estimated at more than £2 billion
The cost of dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past is set to ... leading to a total cost in connection with the Troubles as “between £2.2 billion and £2.7 billion”.
The New York Times6d
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
was his final reading in the U.S.) “He wrote about the Troubles,” Mr. Waters continued, invoking the term used to characterize the sectarian strife in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s ...