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Nov 11, 2021 · November 11, 2021 5:32 PM EST. O n Oct. 5, 1968, chaos broke out in the streets of Derry, Northern Ireland. As a civil rights parade wound through the streets, the police—or Royal Ulster ...
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- Alison Garden
Nov 12, 2021 · For 30 years, Northern Ireland was scarred by a period of deadly sectarian violence known as “the Troubles.”. This explosive era was fraught with car bombings, riots and revenge killings that ...
- Dave Roos
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A loyalist mural in Belfast commemorating the 1969 riots. Belfast has a long history of riots between Catholics and Protestants. Beginning in 1835 there has been at least 15 major riots Belfast, the most violent ones taking place in 1864, 1886 and 1921. See 1886 Belfast riots, Bloody Sunday (1921) and The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920 ...
- 12–16 August 1969 (5 days)
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Jan 9, 2013 · A street riot in 1920 in east Belfast. But it was the dark period of 1920-22 – a period that spanned the Irish War of Independence and the creation of Northern Ireland – that saw the worst Belfast rioting of the early 20th century. From the summer of 1920 to the autumn of 1922, political violence in Belfast cost 465 people their lives, with ...
Apr 8, 2022 · Nationalists and loyalists riot against one another at the peace wall that divides the two communities in Belfast on April 7, 2021. Violence broke out after a loyalist protest in front of the ...
Aug 4, 2021 · In July 1921, an outburst of sectarian violence in Belfast claimed 16 lives on the eve of a truce between Great Britain and Ireland. By the summer of 1921, Ireland’s bid for independence from ...
Apr 8, 2021 · Police come under attack as a riot breaks out in Belfast. As many as 100 people gather in Belfast's Shaftesbury Square area for a loyalist protest. A riot breaks out with petrol bombs, bricks and ...
