1969 Northern Ireland riots
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During 12–16 August 1969, there was an outbreak of political and sectarian violence throughout Northern Ireland, which is often seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as the Troubles.
Police clash with rioters in Bogside district in Derry
A Shorland armoured car. The RUC used Shorlands mounted with Browning machine guns during the riots.
Memorial plaque for Patrick Rooney and Hugh McCabe at Divis Tower
St Comgall's School on Divis Street
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in N
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, who was twice chief-of-staff of the pre-1969 IRA during the Border campaign of 1956–1962, was a member of the first Army Council of the Provisional IRA in 1969.
Martin McGuinness was part of an IRA delegation which took part in peace talks with British politician William Whitelaw, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in July 1972.
Memorial to the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings, which killed twenty-one people in November 1974
An IRA political poster from the 1980s, featuring a quote from Bobby Sands written on the first day of the 1981 hunger strike