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Northern Ireland's troubled legacy
  • UK USE ONLY : ALL FOREIGNS OUT : A British soldier stands near the scene were local Catholic man was shot dead late this evening (Friday), on the Shaws Road, west Belfast, Northern Ireland. This has been the first shooting since the Northern Ireland Political Parties agreed a settlement at Stormont. UK USE ONLY
  • BALLYCONNELL, IRELAND - FEBRUARY 17: A Welcome to Northern Ireland sign is marked with bullet holes on February 17, 2019 in Ballyconnell, Ireland. Britain will leave the European Union on March 29 following the referendum in 2016. Many people in Northern Ireland and Ireland are concerned about a return of a so-called hard border, which could inspire unrest reminiscent of the Troubles. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • OMAGH, NORTHERN IRELAND - AUGUST 12: Family relatives and well wishers wipe away tears as a remembrance service takes place for the victims of the Omagh bombing on it's 20th anniversary on August 12, 2018 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people, including a pregnant mother with twins, were killed in a car bomb attack in the town centre in 1998. The attack was carried out by the dissident republican group the Real IRA and inflicted the greatest single loss of life in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. No-one has been convicted for the atrocity. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • OMAGH, NORTHERN IRELAND - AUGUST 12: Michael Gallagher (C) who lost his son Aidan Gallagher in the Omagh bombing leads dignitaries in a minutes silence as a remembrance service takes place for the victims of the Omagh bombing on it's 20th anniversary on August 12, 2018 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people, including a pregnant mother with twins, were killed in a car bomb attack in the town centre in 1998. The attack was carried out by the dissident republican group the Real IRA and inflicted the greatest single loss of life in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. No-one has been convicted for the atrocity. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND - FEBRUARY 15: A man walks in the loyalist Waterside area of Derry on February 15, 2019 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Britain will leave the European Union on March 29 following the referendum in 2016. Many people in Northern Ireland and Ireland are concerned about a return of a so-called hard border, which could inspire unrest reminiscent of the Troubles. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • BELLEEK, NORTHERN IRELAND - FEBRUARY 14: Road signs denote the border crossing in the village of Belleek on February 14, 2019 in Belleek, Northern Ireland. Britain will leave the European Union on March 29 following the referendum in 2016. Many people in Northern Ireland and Ireland are concerned about a return of a so-called hard border, which could inspire unrest reminiscent of the Troubles. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • PETTIGO, NORTHERN IRELAND - FEBRUARY 13: A road sign denotes the crossing of the border in the village of Pettigo on February 13, 2019 in Pettigo, Northern Ireland. Pettigo is unique as it is the only village divided by the border between the UK and Ireland. Britain will leave the European Union on March 29 following the referendum in 2016. Many people in Northern Ireland and Ireland are concerned about a return of a so-called hard border, which could inspire unrest reminiscent of the Troubles. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • PETTIGO, IRELAND - FEBRUARY 13: A cashiers till carries Sterling and Euro currencies on February 13, 2019 in Pettigo, Ireland. Britain will leave the European Union on March 29 following the referendum in 2016. Many people in Northern Ireland and Ireland are concerned about a return of a so-called hard border, which could inspire unrest reminiscent of the Troubles. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • OMAGH, NORTHERN IRELAND - AUGUST 12: 4 year old Poppy Barrett along with family members lay flowers in memory of family friend Aidan Gallagher who lost his life in the Omagh bomb lay flowers as a remembrance service takes place for the victims of the Omagh bombing on it's 20th anniversary on August 12, 2018 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people, including a pregnant mother with twins, were killed in a car bomb attack in the town centre in 1998. The attack was carried out by the dissident republican group the Real IRA and inflicted the greatest single loss of life in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. No-one has been convicted for the atrocity. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • Former US peace envoy to Northern Ireland, Senator George Mitchell, visited Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane today, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Ageement. On Monday, April 9, 2018, in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • Coiste guide Peadar Whelan is seen in front of a mural as he guides a group of tourists during a political guided tour in west Belfast on March 27, 2018. The murals painted on Belfast's bullet-scared walls to honour the dead serve as a reminder of Northern Ireland's bloody conflict, a story now recounted to tourists by former Republican and Loyalist prisoners. Republican Peadar Whelan is one such guide, having spent 16 years behind bars for trying to kill a British policeman in the late 1970s. The 60-year-old now earns a living recalling his memories of the 'Troubles', which broke out in 1969 and lasted thirty years. Britain and Ireland prepare to mark on April 10, 2018 the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the peace deal that brought an end to the three decades of violence. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL FAITH (Photo credit should read PAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Coiste guide Peadar Whelan poses in front of a mural as he guides a group of tourists during a political guided tour in west Belfast on March 27, 2018. The murals painted on Belfast's bullet-scared walls to honour the dead serve as a reminder of Northern Ireland's bloody conflict, a story now recounted to tourists by former Republican and Loyalist prisoners. Republican Peadar Whelan is one such guide, having spent 16 years behind bars for trying to kill a British policeman in the late 1970s. The 60-year-old now earns a living recalling his memories of the 'Troubles', which broke out in 1969 and lasted thirty years. Britain and Ireland prepare to mark on April 10, 2018 the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the peace deal that brought an end to the three decades of violence. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL FAITH (Photo credit should read PAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND - SEPTEMBER 11: His Holiness The Dalai Lama holds the hand of Richard Moore at a Children in Crossfire press conference on September 11, 2017 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The Dalai Lama is the patron of the Children in Crossfire charity which was founded by local man Richard Moore. Mr Moore was blinded by a plastic bullet fired by a British Soldier during the Troubles in Derry. The Dalai Lama described Mr Moore as his hero. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - APRIL 14: Dissident Republican group Saoradh protest as a Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans rally takes place outside City Hall on April 14, 2017 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The army veterans group had organised the rally in protest at prosecutions against former soldiers in Troubles related cases. The rally and counter protest took place on the anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement as talks to return political power to Stormont are put on temporary hold. A heavy police presence remained in the city as the rally and counter protest took place. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - APRIL 14: Dissident Republican group Saoradh protest as a Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans rally takes place outside City Hall on April 14, 2017 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The army veterans group had organised the rally in protest at prosecutions against former soldiers in Troubles related cases. The rally and counter protest took place on the anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement as talks to return political power to Stormont are put on temporary hold. A heavy police presence remained in the city as the rally and counter protest took place. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
  • Dissident Republicans opposed to a protest by Veterans of the Northern Ireland Troubles and of conflicts march to the City Hall where they were stopped at police lines opposite the veterans' protest, in Belfast on April 14, 2017. The veterans' protest was held in response to a number of recent prosecutions of former soldiers in relation to incidents during the region's sectarian conflict. / AFP PHOTO / Paul FAITH (Photo credit should read PAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams walks in front of the coffin of former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in procession in the Bogside neighbourhood of Derry on its way to St. Columba's Church Longtower for Requiem Mass, On Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • The coffin of former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in procession in the Bogside neighbourhood of Derry on its way to St. Columba's Church Longtower for Requiem Mass, On Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • A police officer mans a vehicle checkpoint off the Shankill Road in Belfast, after the British Government ordered troops back into the streets of Northern Ireland, for the first time in two years, after the murders of two men in an escalating loyalist feud.
  • A soldier patrols outside a taxi company with smashed windows on the Shankill Road in Belfast, after the British Government ordered troops back into the streets of Northern Ireland, after the murders of two men in an escalating loyalist feud.
  • British Army soldiers erect barbed wire in the fields opposite Drumcree Church, in the latest security measure put in place by the security forces after continuing violence at Drumcree, with the rerouted march due to take place on 09/07/00.
  • A soldier outside a newsagents on the Shankill Road in Belfast, after the British Government ordered troops back into the streets of Northern Ireland, for the first time in two years, after the murders of two men in an escalating loyalist feud.
  • British Army troops in full riot gear walk towards a Chinook Army Helicopter, Friday, July 10, 1998, in a field beside Drumcree Road, Portadown, Northern Ireland, as tension rises between loyalists and the security forces on day 6 of the Orange Order stand-off. Photoby Peter Morrison/PA.
  • Betty Williams, a joint leader of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, in Trafalgar Square towards the end of the rally by supporters of the Ulster Peace People, giving a defiant answer to the heckles of 200 counter-demonstrators who flaunted "troops-out" banners. Laughing (Background, from left) is bearded Ciaran McKeown, the movement, Jane Ewart-Biggs, widow of the murdered British Ambassador to Dublin, joan Baez, American folk singer, Mairead Corrigan, movement joint leader, and Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster (extreme right).
  • A stop and search operation on the Craigavon bridge over the River Foyle, here this morning, as traffic is allowed back into the city after yesterday's massive 'Operation Motorman' by the British Army.
  • After the invasion of Bogside and Creggan, British troops conduct street searches of people entering Londonderry.
  • Armoured car and troops at the bridge approach in Londonderry.
  • People move to and from the Bogside area of Londonderry after a night of rioting in which at least five people were shot dead.
  • Armed troops and barricade at Waterloo Place, the entrance to Londonderry's Bogside.
  • Troops sprint from their barracks in Holywood, near Belfast to board a truck to take up guard duty.
  • A British Army soldier on lookout in the Falls Road area of Belfast.
  • A line of British troops stand guard in the Falls Road area of riot torn Belfast.
  • A new search begins at Bragan Bog, Co Monaghan for the body of teenager Columba McVeigh, one of Northern Ireland's disappeared, who was murdered and secretly buried by the Provisional IRA over 40 years ago.
  • 3RD OCTOBER: ON THIS DAY IN 1981 THE HUNGER STRIKES AT THE MAZE PRISON IN NORTHERN IRELAND, COME TO AN END Aerial view of the Maze Prison, where 38 IRA prisoners escaped. 14/3/95: Riot. 25/8/95. 24/3/97: Breakout Bid. 27/12/97: Man shot dead. 15/03/98: David Keys found hanged in cell. 11/11/98: Will shut at end of year 2000. 28/7/00: Prisoners released. * The London Docklands bomber and the border sniper who picked off police and troops on duty were among more than 80 terrorist prisoners set to stream out of the Maze prison. The final wave of early releases under the Good Friday Agreement was set to all but empty the infamous jail.
  • Mourners panick at Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, after a gun and bomb attack by Michael Stone which left three people dead and four seriously injured during the funerals of three IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar. Northern Ireland Assembly members today evacuated Stormont and abandoned their first meeting since the St Andrews Agreement in a security alert.
  • Pro-IRA Graffiti on Buildings in Northern Ireland (Photo by Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
  • PA NEWS 21/8/88 THE SHELL OF AN UNMARKED ARMY BUS LIES AT THE ROADSIDE AFTER IT WAS BLOWN APART BY AN IRA BOMB. THE EXPLOSION, NEAR OMAGH IN COUNTY TYRONE,HAPPENED AS THE BUS FERRIED SOLDIERS BACK TO BARRACKS AFTER LEAVE IN ENGLAND AND KILLED EIGHT SOLDIERS AND LEFT 28 INJURED. (Photo by Tony Harris - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • PA NEWS 21/8/88:THE SHELL OF AN UNMARKED ARMY BUS LIES AT THE ROADSIDE AFTER IT WAS BLOWN APART BY AN IRA BOMB. THE EXPLOSION, NEAR OMAGH IN COUNTY TYRONE, HAPPENED AS THE BUS FERRIED SOLDIERS BACK TO BARRACKS AFTER LEAVE IN ENGLAND AND KILLED EIGHT SOLDIERS AND LEFT 28 INJURED. (Photo by Tony Harris - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Security forces at the scene where two men, believed to be soldiers, were killed near St Agnes Church, west Belfast, at the funeral of IRA man Kevin Brady. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)
  • People hold the coffin of Milltown's IRA member Kevin McKraken. (Photo by Bernard Bisson/Sygma via Getty Images)
  • People march during the funeral for Milltown's IRA member Kevin McKraken. (Photo by Bernard Bisson/Sygma via Getty Images)
  • The hearses carrying the coffins of the three IRA terrorists shot dead in Gibraltar make their way to Milltoen Cemetery, West Belfast. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Women with flowers stand in a cemetery during the funeral for three IRA members. (Photo by Bernard Bisson/Sygma via Getty Images)
  • Following a grenade attack, people help a wounded person in a cemetery during the funeral for three IRA members. (Photo by Bernard Bisson/Sygma via Getty Images)
  • Two Catholic youths walk past a bus, which was hijacked and set on fire by the Provisional IRA, on the Bogside in Derry (or Londonderry), Northern Ireland, on the eve of Apprentice Boys Day in the city, 12th August 1986. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
  • Bagpiper marching before flower-trimmed hearse during funeral for Robert Hill (UDR man killed by IRA). (NORTHERN IRELAND) (Photo by Bill Pierce/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
  • Brown-uniformed marchers next to flower-trimmed hearse during funeral for Robert Hill (UDR man killed by IRA). (NORTHERN IRELAND) (Photo by Bill Pierce/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
  • A British soldier with a smudged face sits by the roadside in Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland, fully equipped with automatic assault rifle, radio 25th September 1985. He is part of a team on the lookout for IRA activity in the Crossmaglen region of southern Armagh better known as 'Bandit Country'. The main movements of the army in this area is by air due to the risk of being targeted by the IRA. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
  • Patrolling British soldiers pass a memorial to IRA hunger strikers in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 25th September 1985. The region is known as 'Bandit Country' and the British Army is obliged to deploy its troops by helicopter to avoid attack by the IRA. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
  • Pro-IRA graffiti in a Catholic residential area of Derry (or Londonderry), Northern Ireland, warning the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) to keep out of the neighborhood, 23rd September 1985. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
  • Panneau en faveur des grévistes de la faim de l'IRA en 1981 à Belfast en Irlande du Nord. (Photo by Jacob SUTTON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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