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Irish: Why, it’s so lucky for us that we avoided any of the factional divisions of two groups squaring off in violence against each other. We’ve always been at peace and in harmony in Ireland./S

History note: 3,500 dead in Ireland.
Along with terror bombings in populated areas, the daily killings included booby traps and shots fired.

The conflict in Northern Ireland that has become known as the Troubles started in the late 1960s and largely ended following the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement of 1998. The violence led to over 3,500 deaths.

5 posted on 05/22/2024 12:30:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)

I remember when Bobby Sands starved himself to death in prison on a hunger strike and when Lord Mountbatten was blown up in his boat by a hidden bomb. Those troubles?

6 posted on 05/22/2024 12:34:35 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)