Ulsterisation - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Ulsterisation: Encyclopedia - Ulsterisation
Ulsterisation refers to a British Government strategy on the 1970s to pacify Northern Ireland during the conflict known as the The Troubl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike: Encyclopedia - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike was a campaign by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland for the British government to grant them po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland
The History of Ireland is the story of a large island in the north-west of Europe and is heavily influenced by the concurrent History of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Union With Great Britain 1801-1922
In 1800, after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the British and the Irish parliaments (the latter controversially, as massive bribery was inv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Notable Events
1971: First British soldier on security duties, Gunner Curtis, killed by the IRA in current campaign in North Belfast. Three unarmed Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike: Encyclopedia Ii - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - First Hunger Strike
IRA and INLA prisoners (the first was Ciarán Nugent) began the blanket protest in which prisoners would refuse to wear prison uniform an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Activities
According to the CAIN research project at the University of Ulster, the Provisional IRA was responsible for the deaths of 1,706 people du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - The Belfast Agreement
The IRA ceasefire in 1997 formed part of a process that led to the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. The Agreement has among its aims...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - End Of The Armed Campaign
On July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign. In a statement read by Séanna Breathnach, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry And Operations
In the early days of the Troubles from around 1969-71, the IRA was very poorly armed, having available only a handful of old fashioned we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Strength And Support
The Provisional IRA has several hundred members, as well as tens of thousands of civilian sympathisers in Ireland, mostly in Ulster. In 2...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Infiltration
The IRA has often been infiltrated by British Intelligence agents, and in the past some IRA members have been informers. IRA members susp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - P. O'neill
The PIRA traditionally uses a well-known signature in its public statements, which are all issued under the pseudonymous name of "P. O'Ne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 And Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801
Main Article Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 The Reformation, before which, in 1536, Henry VIII broke with Papal authority, fundamentally ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Early History: 8000 Bc–ad 400
What little is known of pre-Christian Ireland comes from a few references in Roman writings, Irish poetry and myth, and archaeology. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike: Encyclopedia Ii - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - Commemorations
The people of Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated a monument to Bobby Sands and the other hunger strikers in 1997. The monument stands in a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike: Encyclopedia Ii - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - Consequences
The Hunger Strike heralded an upsurge of violence after the comparatively quiet years of the late 1970s, with widespread civil disorder i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike: Encyclopedia Ii - 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - Second Hunger Strike
After a few weeks it emerged that the British government were simply intending to give the prisoners the right to wear civilian-style clo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800
The middle centuries of the first millennium AD marked great changes in Ireland. Niall Noigiallach (died c.450/455) laid the basis for th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Early Medieval Era 800–1166
Main article Early Medieval Ireland 800-1166 The first recorded Viking raid in Irish history occurred in 795 when Vikings from Norway loo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Organisation
The IRA is organised hierarchically. It refers to its ordinary members as volunteers (or óglaigh in Irish). Up until the late 1970s, IRA...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Origins
The Provisional IRA has its ideological and organisational roots in the pre-1969 anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. This organisation spl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland
Main article Norman Ireland History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185. By the 12th century, Ireland was divided politi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia Ii - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Categorisation
Due to its frequent use of bombs; its killing of hundreds of policemen, soldiers and civilians, predominantly though not exclusively in N...   » Read the article