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“Foot Soldiers” who were the Provisional IRA’s female Volunteers during the 1970’s? - The Islander
theislander.eun the 1970s, a brutal ethno-nationalist conflict which became locally and internationally known as “the Troubles” erupted in the British administered part of Ireland (Northern Ireland). Ireland had been partitioned by the British in 1921 as part of a two-state solution devised to accommodate both traditions on the island of Ireland and grant limited autonomy to the Catholic and nationalist southern counties, in addition to sparking a civil war between pro and anti-partition Republicans the clumsy and hastily implemented partition of the country isolated a significant minority of Catholic Nationalists within the newly created statelet. This minority were widely discriminated against both socially and economically. In 1969 A popular civil rights movement seeking parity of voting rights for the Catholic Nationalist minority was violently suppressed by the Protestant dominated unionist Government and its security forces. During the 1970s Nationalists waged a form of guerilla warfare against the British State which started in the late 1960s and ended in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement. The Troubles mainly took place in the Northern Ireland, but also affected parts of Republic of Ireland, England and mainland Europe. The conflict was essentially political, sectarian and nationalistic in nature. The central issue at stake was the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.
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