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The Troubles
Date	1966-1998
Location
Status	An end to most violence with the Good Friday Agreement
Belligerents
Irish Republicans	British and Unionist Forces
Miltary Organizations; Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army (until 1969); Saor Éire (1967-1970); Provisional Irish Republican Army (from 1969); Official Irish Republican Army (1969-1972); Irish National Liberation Army (from 1974); Continuity Irish Republican Army (from 1986); Irish People's Liberation Organization (1986-1992); Real Irish Republican Army (from 1997)	Military Organizations; British Armed Forces; Royal Ulster Constabulary; Ulster Volunteer Force (1966-1994); Ulster Protestant Volunteers (1966-1969); Red Hand Commando (1970-1994); Ulster Defence Association (1971-1994); Ulster Resistance (from 1986); Loyalist Volunteer Force (from 1996)
Political Organizations; Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin (until 1969); Provisional Sinn Féin (from 1969); Official Sinn Féin (from 1969, later called Sinn Féin-Workers Party or Worker's Party); Nothern Ireland Civil Rights Association (1969-1972); Irish Republican Socialist Party (from 1974); Republican Sinn Féin (from 1986); Republican Socialist Collective (1986-1992); 32 County Sovereignity Movement (from 1997)	Political Organizations=; Ulster Unionist Party; Conservative and Unionist Party; Progressive Unionist Party (from 1979)
Material Support and Training; NORAID (from 1969); Palestine Liberation Organization (1970s-1980s); Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1972-1973/1980s); Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (sporadically from 1972); Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (from 1974); Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (limited)	Material Support; Union of South Africa; Arkan's Tigers
Poltical Support; Most global Socialist and national liberation movements	Political Support; Most Western imperialist states and reactionaries.

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The Troubles was a conflict between Irish Republican organizations and the British Army and its Unionist paramilitary supporters.

The conflict was characterized by bombings and assassinations by militant groups, as well as sectarian violence committed against innocent civilians, primarily by Protestant unionist groups against Irish Catholic civilians.

Background

Groups Involved

History

Effects

Casualties

3,720 people were killed in total during the conflict and approximately 47,541 were injured.^[1]

Characterization

References

↑ "Fact sheet for the conflict in and around Nothern Ireland". CAIN Archive.

[1] "Fact sheet for the conflict in and around Nothern Ireland". CAIN Archive.

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	The conflict was characterized by bombings and assassinations by militant groups, as well as sectarian violence committed against innocent civilians, primarily by [[Protestant]] unionist groups against [[Irish Catholic]] civilians.		The conflict was characterized by bombings and assassinations by militant groups, as well as sectarian violence committed against innocent civilians, primarily by [[Protestant]] unionist groups against [[Irish Catholic]] civilians.