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Searc's Web Guide to 20th Century Ireland 1947-2000
Chronology
1949 Declaration of the Republic of Ireland.
1956-62 IRA 'Border' campaign.
1965 O'Neill-Lemass Talks.
1967 Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded.
1968 British troops deployed in Northern Ireland. First Civil Rights Marches. Derry Civil rights March banned on October 5th by William Craig, Minister of Home Affairs. March disruptedby 'B' Specials of RUC.
1969 People's Democracy Belfast to Derry March. Marchers attacked at Burntollet bridge on January 4th. O'Neill resigns and Chichester Clark becomes Prime Minister. 'B' Specials riot in Derry and Belfast. August 14th British troops sent to Derry. Unionist riots in Belfast protesting against Hunt Commission's report on RUC.
1970 Dublin Arms Trial (Haughey, Blaney, Boland acquitted).
1971 First British solider killed by IRA in Belfast. Chichester Clark resigns and Faulkner becomes Prime Minister. Faulkner gets British Government's agreement to internment: 342 arrested. By December total numbers interned was 1576.
1972 14 unarmed civilians are shot dead by the British Army at an anti-internment march on January 30th in Derry which became known as Bloody Sunday. Direct Rule from Westminster imposed. Stormont Government suspended.
1973 Sunningdale Agreement. Power sharing Assembly established.
1974 Ulster Workers' Strike brings down Faulkner and Assembly. Direct rule re-imposed. 1971 Provisional IRA begins campaign. Internment without trial re-introduced in Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland join European Community.
1980-81 Republican Hunger Strikes in Long Kesh Prison. Ten hunger strikers die, including Bobby Sands.
1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement signed.
1994 Peace Declaration. IRA ceasefire on August 31st, 1994. Ulster paramilitaries declare ceasefire October, 1994.
1996 IRA cesefire recinded.
1997 IRA declares Ceasefire on July 21st.
1998 Belfast Agreement signed on April 10th. Amendments to Articles 2, 3 and 29 of the Irish Constitution passed by Referendum.
2000 Leglislative Assembly formed at Stormont to govern Northern Ireland with all-party support.
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People and Texts
Cathal Goulding (1927-1998)
Sean MacStiofáin (1930-2001)
Margaretta D'Arcy (born 1934)
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (born 1935)
Richard McIlkenny (born 1935)
Seamus Ó Tuathail (born 1939)
Bobby Devlin (born 1941)
Michael Farrell (born 1944)
Niall O'Brien (born 1946)
Bernadette Devlin McAlisky (born 1947)
Seamus Keenan (born 1947)
Gerry Adams (born 1948)
Desmond O'Hagan (born 1948)
Raymond McLaughlin (1948-1985)
Áine & Eibhlín Nic Giolla Easpaig (born 1952 and 1949)
Bobby Sands (1954-1981)
Joe O'Connell (born 1951)
Delours Price (born 1951)
Osgur Breathnach (born 1951)
Brendan McCaffrey (born 1951)
Hugh Feeney (born 1952)
Mary Reid (1953-2003)
Danny Morrison (born 1953)
Dessie Ellis (born 1953)
Gerry Conlon (born 1955)
Noel Gibson (born 1955)
Nicky Kohoe (born 1955)
Gerry Kelly (born 1955)
Felim O'Hagan (born 1955)
Joe Doherty (born 1955)
Laurence McKeown (born 1957)
Gerry McGeough (born 1958)
Martina Shanahan (born 1963)
Republican Women Prisoners, Maghaberry Gaol, 1992
Anti-Revisionism Essay by Peter Beresford Ellis
This C. Desmond Greaves Memorial Lecture was delivered at the Conway hall, London, on October 31st, 1989.
Clogher Historical Society
Local history enthusiasts and genealogists in the diocese of Clogher.
Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985
Key Documents in relation to Anglo-Irish relations and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, including:
Patten Report on Policing; The Mitchell Report 1996; Bloody Sunday Report, June 1997; The Good Friday Agreement 1998; British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Act, 2002; Joint Declaration 2003 and The St. Andrew's Agreeement 2006.