The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

Taoiseach Jack Lynch's request followed many such demands by nationalists for the UN's engagement in Northern Ireland ...

"They, as civil rights campaigners, were claiming the right to march and they were arguing ... IMAGES The army was deployed to Northern Ireland in August 1969 Many young Protestants on the other ...

When Terence O’Neill became Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister in March 1963, he wanted to heal the 'ancient hatreds' that divided the two communities. The campaign for civil rights - CCEA The ...

One of Northern Ireland's best-known civil rights leaders, Ivan Cooper, has died aged 75. Mr Cooper was one of the leaders of the civil rights march in Londonderry in 1972 that ended in 13 people ...

but by the late 1960s they had created divisions amongst unionists close unionistA person who believes the union between Britain and Northern Ireland should continue. who feared that too much was ...