#thetroubles — Public Fediverse posts
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Over 300,000 British soldiers were sent to #NorthernIreland during 25 years of #TheTroubles.
Those troops killed 315 people. The overwhelming majority were Catholic civilians including women, 2 priests, and over 60 children. But only a handful of #BritishArmy prosecutions took place. Few were convicted, and many of those were released early.
Time to stop pandering to victim-makers, says #MarkThompson.
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Over 300,000 British soldiers were sent to #NorthernIreland during 25 years of #TheTroubles.
Those troops killed 315 people. The overwhelming majority were Catholic civilians including women, 2 priests, and over 60 children. But only a handful of #BritishArmy prosecutions took place. Few were convicted, and many of those were released early.
Time to stop pandering to victim-makers, says #MarkThompson.
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Over 300,000 British soldiers were sent to #NorthernIreland during 25 years of #TheTroubles.
Those troops killed 315 people. The overwhelming majority were Catholic civilians including women, 2 priests, and over 60 children. But only a handful of #BritishArmy prosecutions took place. Few were convicted, and many of those were released early.
Time to stop pandering to victim-makers, says #MarkThompson.
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Over 300,000 British soldiers were sent to #NorthernIreland during 25 years of #TheTroubles.
Those troops killed 315 people. The overwhelming majority were Catholic civilians including women, 2 priests, and over 60 children. But only a handful of #BritishArmy prosecutions took place. Few were convicted, and many of those were released early.
Time to stop pandering to victim-makers, says #MarkThompson.
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Over 300,000 British soldiers were sent to #NorthernIreland during 25 years of #TheTroubles.
Those troops killed 315 people. The overwhelming majority were Catholic civilians including women, 2 priests, and over 60 children. But only a handful of #BritishArmy prosecutions took place. Few were convicted, and many of those were released early.
Time to stop pandering to victim-makers, says #MarkThompson.
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These Colonialist Establishment freaks keep telling us what they are, and how little our lives matter if we don't follow them on their straight path
#KemiBadenoch #BloodySunday #TheTroubles #UKPol #UKpolitics #Colonialism
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Irish Legal News: UK government records relating to Troubles published by National Archives. “This first batch of files includes records offering fresh insights into the conflict’s early stages, including: the Civil Rights Campaign; the Outbreak of Conflict and the deployment of the Army; and the establishment of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) in 1972 following the suspension of Stormont.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/irish-legal-news-uk-government-records-relating-to-troubles-published-by-national-archives/ -
Stolen apple tree dedicated to former UDA leader ‘will be replaced’, guerrilla gardener vows – The Irish News https://www.allforgardening.com/1672347/stolen-apple-tree-dedicated-to-former-uda-leader-will-be-replaced-guerrilla-gardener-vows-the-irish-news/ #belfast #environment #garden #gardener #gardening #nature #SouthBelfast #TheTroubles #uda
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Slugger O’Toole: Navigating fraught legacies with trauma-informed archival practice. “The event featured a series of presentations and panel discussions from archivists, journalists, and historians, providing deep insights into how to navigate the fraught legacies of conflict contained within historical records.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/slugger-otoole-navigating-fraught-legacies-with-trauma-informed-archival-practice/ -
Maggie Thatcher, you can't match her...
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1831629/maggie-thatcher-you-can-t-match-her
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/215614/ Guns linked to IRA killings lost or destroyed by British army and police – The Irish News #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #BritishArmy #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IRA #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #PSNI #ruc #TheTroubles #TopStories #TopStories #World #WorldNews #WorldNews
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The Journal (Ireland): University of Galway publishes digital archive of hand-made Long Kesh journals. “A NEW DIGITAL archive of prison journals created in Long Kesh internment camp during the 1970s has been made available by University of Galway. The university has published a digital archive of journals and photos from the Maze Prison from the mid-1970s. It was provided with the journals by […]
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/314735/ Sam McBride: The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin soon might be using: Keep Northern Ireland #BorderPoll #CaoimheArchibald #FrancieMolloy #IRA #NorthernIreland #SamMcBride #SinnFein #TheTroubles #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/314028/ Sam McBride: The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin soon might be using: Keep Northern Ireland #BorderPoll #CaoimheArchibald #FrancieMolloy #IRA #NorthernIreland #SamMcBride #SinnFein #TheTroubles #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/193785/ Ex-IRA spy mistakenly sent sensitive Teebane massacre information by legacy body #IRA #NorthernIreland #PoliceServiceOfNorthernIreland #SamMcBride #SinnFein #TheTroubles #UK #UnitedKingdom
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It has been suggested that the bombings were intended to wreck the Sunningdale Agreement and to make both the Irish and British governments take a stronger line against the IRA. The Sunningdale Agreement envisaged a role for the Irish government in the administration of Northern Ireland. The British government actively obstructed an investigation by Mr Justice Henry Barron, an Irish judge, into the bombings in 2003. 2/2
#Ireland #IrishHistory #TheTroubles #UVF #Dublin #Monaghan #OnThisDay
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2025 book twenty-eight: Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #nonfiction #books #bookstodon #books2025 #ebooks #history #nonfiction #PatrickRaddenKeefe #thetroubles
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"10 April 1998" teableau for 04/10/25
On this day, 28 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast.
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#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #IrishBreakfast #NorthernIreland #BelfastAgreement #GoodFridayAgreement #TheTroubles #Shamrock #CelticKnot #Spring
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We recently finished the series #DerryGirls, and my hubby found a podcast from Telegraph which tells the awful truth of why #IrishCatholics were so pissed off at #Protestants in #NorthernIreland. Housing and employment #discrimination, harrassment, lack of #VotingRights, etc. Did you know that only if you owned property you could vote, and business owners could vote twice! And guess who owned most of the property and businesses! No wonder there was rebellion!
A new series of Bed of Lies: Spies, murder and terrorists in Northern Ireland’s Troubles
by Cara McGoogan
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/bed-of-lies/
#IrishHistory #BritishHistory #AbolishTheMonarchy #TheTroubles #Oppression -
See also In The Name Of The Father
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Powerful #MiniSeries spans four decades of #TheTroubles in Northern Ireland. Based on true events
#SayNothing (#TVMiniSeries 2024) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31122777/
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just finished #SayNothing within 2 days*, whew. i feel that i’ll be thinking about this show for quite some time now and i'm definitely gonna refresh/deepen my knowledge of #TheTroubles.
*it was released as a binge drop and i definitely did the binge thing but i'm not sure i would recommend doing that due to the heavy topic and content note-worthy themes (i just couldn't bring myself to stop really).
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Say Nothing: A True Story About Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Review
#SayNothing #SayNothingBook #NonFiction #patrickraddenkeefe #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #book #bookreview
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The Maze Prison escape took place on 25 September 1983. HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh/An Cheis Fhada) was a maximum security prison considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. In the biggest prison escape in British history, 38 IRA prisoners escaped from H-Block 7 of the prison. One prison officer died of a heart attack during the escape and twenty others were injured.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #NorthernIreland #MazePrison #LongKesh #TheTroubles #OnThisDay
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#Tufty poster from #1970s #NorthernIreland (I vaguely remember also seeing it around train stations in #London around the same time) #UK #TheTroubles
(Normally Tufty the squirrel and his friends just told you to be safe when crossing the road or playing outside)
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The British government actively obstructed an investigation by Mr Justice Henry Barron, an Irish judge, into the bombings in 2003. 3/3
#Ireland #IrishHistory #TheTroubles #UVF #Dublin #Monaghan #OnThisDay
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These claims are based, in part, on the complexity of the attack and the sophistication of the bombs. It has been suggested that the bombings were intended to wreck the Sunningdale Agreement and to make both the Irish and British governments take a stronger line against the IRA. The Sunningdale Agreement envisaged a role for the Irish government in the administration of Northern Ireland. 2/
#Ireland #IrishHistory #TheTroubles #UVF #Dublin #Monaghan #OnThisDay
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Thirty-four civilians were killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force detonated four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan on 17th May 1974, 50 years ago today. There are credible suggestions that the bombers were working as agents for the British Intelligence Corps and RUC Special Branch and that they had help from members of the British security forces. 1/
#Ireland #IrishHistory #TheTroubles #Dublin #UVF #Monaghan #OnThisDay
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons
"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying
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"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons
"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying
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"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons
"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying
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"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons
"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying
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"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons
"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying
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"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.
"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."
Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.
Anne Cadwallader: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-general-who-terrorised-the-colonies/
#counterTerrorism #counterInsurgency #colonialism #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IRA #stateTerrorism #FrankKitson #BloodySunday #DeathSquads #warCrimes #Kenya #IrishHistory #history #Kitson #DeclassifiedUK
