Troubles Archives

UK apologizes for deaths of 10 civilians during ‘Troubles’

May 13, 2021

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Wednesday for the deaths of 10 civilians during military operations half a century ago in west Belfast, a day after a coroner’s court determined that they were innocent victims.

By Danica Kirka

Coroner rules 1971 massacre victims in Belfast were ‘entirely innocent’

May 11, 2021

A coroner in Northern Ireland ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were “entirely innocent” and their deaths were unjustified.

By Michael Kelly, CNS

100 years old: Low-key centenary for Northern Ireland

May 4, 2021

Northern Ireland marked what is widely considered to be its centenary on Monday, with Queen Elizabeth II stressing the need for “reconciliation, equality and mutual understanding” as she sent her “warmest good wishes” to its people.

By Pan Pylas

New novel explores lives of the ‘peace generation’ in Northern Ireland

Apr 30, 2021

A new young adult novel chronicles the story of the generation born after the peace, and the strains that still exists between Northern Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities.

By Charles Collins

Irish Christian leaders call on UK, Ireland to work together on root causes of N Ireland violence

Apr 13, 2021

Religious leaders in Ireland are calling on Irish, British, and Northern Irish politicians to renew their “commitment to peace, reconciliation and the protection of the most vulnerable” in the face of ongoing violence in Northern Ireland.

By Charles Collins

NI Loyalist paramilitaries end support of Good Friday Agreement over Brexit deal

Mar 4, 2021

Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland say they are “withdrawing support” from the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that brought an end to “The Troubles” – a 30-year conflict that left over 3,500 people dead.

By Charles Collins

UK not to hold inquiry into Belfast lawyer’s murder in 1989

Dec 1, 2020

Britain’s government said Monday that it has decided against holding a public inquiry into the murder more than three decades ago of a Belfast attorney who specialized in defending Irish Republican Army suspects.

By Associated Press

N. Ireland’s experience may offer insight into U.S. policing issues

Jun 16, 2020

The U.S. demonstrations over police aggression toward minorities has an antecedent in Northern Ireland, according to a police commander in Salinas, California, who spent the first 10 years of his life in Northern Ireland in the midst of “the Troubles” there, then later wrote his master’s thesis on the applicability of its policing reforms to the United States.

By Mark Pattison