Since the early 1970s, extrajudicial punishment attacks have been carried out by Ulster loyalist and Irish republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Attacks can range from a warning or expul
Many of the attacks have taken place in Belfast at night.
Free Derry corner
Shankill Road is a hotspot for loyalist attacks
Weapons used against paramilitary punishment victims who required orthopedic treatment, 1997–2017. GSW refers to gunshot wound.
The Troubles
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The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in
The Battle of the Boyne (12 July 1690) by Jan van Huchtenburg
Protestant demonstrators burning an effigy of Daniel O’Connell, an incident that sparked the Belfast riots of 1864
The Ulster Covenant was issued in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill in September 1912.
Sir James Craig, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, who said, "All I boast is that we are a Protestant Parliament and Protestant State"