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The Troubles

1968–1998 Northern Ireland Status: ended Casualties: ~3,500

Thirty years of low-intensity conflict between republicans, loyalists, and the British state. Bloody Sunday (1972), the hunger strikes (1981), Omagh (1998). The Good Friday Agreement (April 1998) ended the violence; Brexit reopened the question.

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Belligerents

  • Provisional IRA
  • Loyalist paramilitaries (UVF, UDA)
  • British Army

Casualties

~3,500

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.