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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First ...
- 24-29 April 1916
Apr 8, 2022 · Soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland on August 16, 1969, the day after British troops ended the Battle of the Bogside—a conflict that escalated the Troubles and tipped Northern Ireland...
Apr 30, 2021 · How did the Northern Ireland secretary, who finally brought the hunger strike to an end, view Sinn Fein's advance? I interviewed James - by then Lord - Prior two years before he died aged 89.
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident.
RMS Empress of Ireland was a British-built ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the early hours of 29 May 1914. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments and, in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster two years ...
Feb 17, 2011 · Background to invasion. The devastating wars of the British nations, which had seen Edward I invade Wales and then Scotland in the 13th century, left Ireland largely unaffected. However, Edward ...
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Aug 15, 2019 · Thursday, August 14th, 1969: The violence erupts into killings. Six people die in clashes, five in Belfast, including a child, and one in Armagh, 121 people are treated in hospital of whom 42 had ...
