gt) ed VERSION Colour work: CLAIRE CHAMPEVAL - JEAN GIRAUD OB. CINEBQOKA quick historical recap before we begin: Ireland was colonised by the English from the 12" century, when Henry Il Plantagenet invaded the country. After centuries of occupation, punctuated by terrible acts (notably the destruction of churches and the deportation of Catholics by Cromwell), the first signs of a nationwide effart tawards independence appeared at the end of the 18!" century and continued all through the 19" century—each time brutally suppressed by the British. The first nationalist party, Sinn Fein (“We ourselves” in Gaelic) was founded in 1905. In 1919, two pro-independence armed groups, the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers, were merged into the newly created IRA (Irish Republican Army). In 1921, London agreed to the creation of the Irish Free State (Saorstat Eireann) as a dominion of the crown. However, the northeastern part of the island, the six counties of Ulster—whose population was two-thirds Protestants and English landowners— remained part of the United Kingdom. By the end of 1937, Southern Ireland adopted a new constitution and ceased being a simple British deminion ta become a sovereign state under the name Eire. It wasn't until 1949, however—after remaining neutral during the Second World War—that it left the Commonwealth and became the Republic of Ireland as we know it today. Sinn Féin always refused the partition of Northern Ireland, and that part of the IRA that also refused it became the secret organisation we now know. It officially declared war on Great Britain in December 1938 and began its terrorist operations the following month. In Northern Ireland, law enforcement was (until 2001) in the hands of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), with 90% made up of Irish Protestants. After the August 1969 riots in Belfast and Londonderry (Derry to the pro-independence Republicans), Great Britain permanently stationed troops in suppart of the local police. Al the end of 1969, the IRA split inte two factions: the Official IRA, which, like Sinn Féin, wanted to continue the fight through institutional means and negotiation, and the Provisional IRA (in reference to the 1916 Provisional Government whose members were almost all executed by the British), which chose to continue the armed struggle—a struggle that was mostly limited to terrorist attacks. “Bloody Friday” of July 21, 1972, which killed rine and injured 130 in Belfast. The assassination of Lord Mountbatten in County Sligo in August 1979. The failed attempt on Margaret Thatcher's life in Brighton on October 12, 1984. And the mortar attack against No. 10 Downing Street (also a failure) in February 1991. In response, the British passed a law in 1971 that would allow, within Ulster, the internment without warrant or trial of any suspect. In 1980, the British Government removed the interned IRA volunteers’ status as political prisoners... To counter the IRA, nationalist and republican, the Irish Protestants (called Loyalists, Unionists or Orangemen, in reference to William Ill of Orange-Nassau, who propagated Protestantism in Northern Europe after defeating the Catholic troops of James II in 1690) also created a paramilitary force, the UFF (Ulster Freedom Fighters), whase activity was limited, beyond a few isolated assassinations, to streat fighting against Catholics. After long and difficult negotiations that led to the Good Friday accords of 1998, the various parties agreed to a ceasefire, followed in 2000 by the partial withdrawal of British troops and the suspension —but not the dissolution—of both IRAs, the Official and the Provisional. 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