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Everyday life during the Troubles A “peace wall” in Belfast Mass arrests on Bloody Sunday A peace protest in Northern Ireland Bobby Sands's funeral procession Signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) Concluding the Good Friday Agreement
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Also Known As Northern Ireland conflict
Date 1968 - 1998
Location Belfast • Londonderry • Ulster
Participants British army • Irish Republican Army • Northern Ireland • Royal Ulster Constabulary • United Kingdom

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Everyday life during the Troubles
A “peace wall” in Belfast
Mass arrests on Bloody Sunday
A peace protest in Northern Ireland
Bobby Sands's funeral procession
Signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)
Concluding the Good Friday Agreement
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British troops facing protesters on Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday
January 30, 1972
Destruction of the Mulberry Bush
Birmingham pub bombings
November 21, 1975
Omagh bombing
Omagh bombing
August 15, 1998