"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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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1998 the #GoodFridayAgreement ended the thirty years of #TheTroubles. But devolved or not, a #colonial power still governs a large part of #Ireland, and an artificial #border still divides families.
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#TheTroubles from #Ireland are here in the #US. Sign says "#GoodTrouble #NecessaryTrouble"
On the bottom right is someone demonstrates with #Trump #GoldenSneakers
#Bales2025FilmChallenge of April 4: civil rights being fought for
The Patriot Game (Arthur MacCaig, 1979)
Northern Ireland civil rights movement
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t1xc
settima · The Patriot Game (Arthur MacCaig, 1979)The Patriot Game (Arthur MacCaig, 1979) Apr 4 MLK Jr. – 1968 A older lady calmly clips her hedges while a British soldier attempts ...
So, there was a very bad joke that some friends from Northern Ireland told me back in the 1980s (which really pissed off my English ex-boyfriend).
"How do you get the Brits out of Ireland?"
"Make them an offer they can't diffuse."
#Ireland #IrishCatholics #IrishHistory #AntiColonial #Rebellion #TheTroubles
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
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(1 of 2) On #ThisDayInHistory in 1972, #BloodySunday, or the #Derry #BogsideMassacre, was done in #NorthernIreland by the UK military. A protest against #internment was fired on, with 14 killed. This helped #IRA recruitment and 1972 was the most violent year of #TheTroubles...
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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).
On 5th October 1968 a non-sectarian civil-rights march took place in Derry. The demands of the marchers included an end to gerrymandering and discrimination in housing and the right to vote. The Royal Ulster Constabulary attempted to violently disperse the crowd by baton-charging the crowd and leaving many people injured including a number of MPs. The march marked the start of the Troubles.
#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)
"‘Anything moving out there is considered IRA’ – Former paratrooper" 
https://sluggerotoole.com/2024/08/21/anything-moving-out-there-is-considered-ira-former-paratrooper/
Slugger O'Toole‘Anything moving out there is considered IRA’ – Former paratrooper…Good article by Paul Ainsworth in today’s Irish News: A former paratrooper who gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths of 10 people during the Ballymurphy massacre has described in a new memoir how young members of the regiment were “completely brainwashed” and that poor leadership “led to many innocent victims being killed”. Matthew Innes, who was stationed in Belfast in 1971 when the Ballymurphy massacre took place across three days in the west of the city, has outlined …
The British army was first deployed on the streets in the North of Ireland on 14th August 1969, marking the beginning of ‘Operation Banner'. It lasted until 31 July 2007 and was the longest continuous deployment in British military history. At the peak of the operation in the 1970s, about 21,000 British troops were deployed. 1,441 serving British military personnel died in Operation Banner.
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The podcast is based on original research by the Belfast writer and Journalist Pádraig Ó Meiscil. His substack is available here:
padraigomeiscill.substack.comNervous Conditions | Pádraig Ó Meiscill | SubstackFiction and some facts from a precarious place. Click to read Nervous Conditions, by Pádraig Ó Meiscill, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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The Troubles Legacy Act was designed to cover up crimes by British soldiers including those documented in this podcast.
It is to his credit that Starmer has undertaken to revoke the Act in his King's Speech.
I have just finished listening to Fin Dwyer's brilliant three part podcast on the siege of the Falls Road by the British Army in 1970. I remember it from my childhood, and I spent time as a child with family in Free Derry so the Troubles were very part of my life growing up, but revisiting the brutality of the British army against the Catholic population is shocking.
#BookReview — Troubles of the Past? (eds James McAuley et al)
“Conversations between different perspectives of memorialisation will set us on the path to healing. This book is a worthwhile read for those wanting to understand the importance of history in Northern Ireland, while also providing practical steps to promote the peace process.”
Read our review by Alex STEVENSON 
https://sharedfuture.news/book-review-troubles-of-the-past-eds-james-w-mcauley-et-al/
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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
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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/