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Mind Map by matt.r.taylor, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by matt.r.taylor
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Northern Ireland:
Increasing Violence
- Worries about summer of 1969
- Marching season approached
- Stormont feared
collapse of already
stressed security
forces
- Republic sent intelligence
officer to NI
- Loyalists
resented
'concessions'
- Republicans
apprenhensive to
protect Nationalists
- Marching season approached
- Violence
- July 1969 - Belfast riots
- 12 August - 'Apprentice Boys' parade riot
- 'Battle of the Bogside'
- 50 hours
- Stopped by small number of GB troops
- 50 hours
- Provincial town disturbances continued
- July 1969 - Belfast riots
- Jack Lynch feared situation;
issued concerns and sent Irish
troops and field hospitals to the
border
- Political reforms/agreements
- 'Downing Street Declaration' [Wilson, PM]
- Nationalists 'every citizen of northern Ireland is
entitled to the same equality... irrespective of
views or religion'
- Unionists 'Northern Ireland should not cease to
be part of the UK without the consent of the
people'
- Nationalists 'every citizen of northern Ireland is
entitled to the same equality... irrespective of
views or religion'
- Introduction of 'one man, one vote'
- End to gerrymandering
- Lord Hunt
policing
committee
- Disarm RUC, disband B-Specials
and replace with UDR under army
control
- Disarm RUC, disband B-Specials
and replace with UDR under army
control
- Investment
grants
- Job-creating schemes
- One new housing
authority [not several
ones as present]
- Nationalists were happy
about reforms, more fair
- Unionists saw reforms
as 'concessions'
- Violence on
Shankill Road due to Hunt Report
- Violence on
Shankill Road due to Hunt Report
- 'Downing Street Declaration' [Wilson, PM]
- Paramilitaries
- 1969 - IRA split (a.k.a.
I Ran Away due to lack
of protection)
- Official IRA (OIRA) - aimed
for Marxist Ireland and
ceasefire in May 1972
- Provisional IRA (IRA)
- Destroy Stormont
- Defend Catholics
- Remove British 'Imperialism'
- Civil Rights
- Destroy Stormont
- Official IRA (OIRA) - aimed
for Marxist Ireland and
ceasefire in May 1972
- UVF wanted to
return to Unionist
domination
- Membership thrived due to
annoyance at O'Neill and
NICRA
- Membership thrived due to
annoyance at O'Neill and
NICRA
- September 1971 - UDA formed
- 30,000 members in year = too big to ban
- 30,000 members in year = too big to ban
- 1969 - IRA split (a.k.a.
I Ran Away due to lack
of protection)
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