Irish Troubles

Question 1

Act of Union
Date
What

Answer 1

• 1801
• Unified UK and Ireland

Question 2

Easter Uprising
Date
What

Answer 2

• Easter, 1916
• Irish republicans in Dublin rise up against British forces to establish an independent Ireland. British quickly suppress them

Question 3

Irish War of Independence
Date

Answer 3

1919-1921

Question 4

Irish Civil War
Date
Outcome

Answer 4

• 1922 to 1923
• Pro-treaty victory

Question 5

Civil Rights Groups Banned
Date
Significance

Answer 5

• 1968
• Catholics are “treated as second-class citizens” (Mike Cronin’s perspective)
• Protestant marches allowed to continue as they are “mostly ceremonial”

Question 6

IRA banned

Answer 6

1969

Question 7

Battle of Bogside
Date
Statistics and What
What Next

Answer 7

• August 12th 1969
• 15,000 Apprentice Boys (Protestant group) march through Londonderry, harass Catholics and fights break out
• RUC called in to suppress violence
• Over 1,100 canisters of tear gas
  Over 1,000 injuries, but no deaths
• August 13th, tensions with Catholic resistance groups (IRA) grow

Question 8

Operation Banner
Internment/Operation Demetrius

Answer 8

• August 14th 1969, NI requests support from London
• British Army sent in to restore order
• 1971, Internment allowed for RUC and British personnel to arrest and detain without trial

Question 9

Bloody Sunday
Date and times
Statistics

Answer 9

• January 30th 1972
• NICRA protests begin at 3:00, violence starts at 3:55
• 20,000 marches
• Devolves into violence, police fire water cannons and tear gas
• Police begin arrests, along with beating and clubbing rioters
• Ordered to fire on the crowd, 21 soldiers fire 108 rounds, hitting 27 and killing 13 (1 more later)

Question 10

Bloody Friday
Date
What

Answer 10

• July 21st 1972
• Provos plant and detonate 22 bombs across Belfast
• 9 killed, 130 injuries

Question 11

Direct Rule
Date
What
Further Dates

Answer 11

• March 28th 1972
• UK Parliament establishes direct control over NI, dissolving the Stormont
• Only supposed to last for 12 months, ends up lasting for 35 years

Question 12

Good Friday Agreement
Date
What
Agreements

Answer 12

• ## 1998

Question 13

Effects of the Troubles

Question 14

Provo Goals

Question 15

Statistics
(Deaths)