Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh

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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1759–1822), educated in The Royal School, Armagh. British Foreign Secretary, Secretary for War, Leader of the United Kingdom House of Commons and Chief Secretary for Ireland

The policing is a wee bit more normal than it was but let’s face it, it’s not normal,” McConville adds. a b c d e f g h i "Build or find Census 2021 tables | NISRA Flexible Table Builder". build.nisra.gov.uk . Retrieved 18 July 2023. People have this image of what goes on in Cross and obviously certain aspects have fed into that over the years with criminality. The people here work to improve things for themselves because they accept they’re not going to get anything from anybody else — Úna Walsh This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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Former Armagh footballer Oisín McConville on the terrace of the Crossmaglen Rangers pitch which is overlooked by the still heavily fortified police station. Photograph: Stephen Davison Armagh once had a well-developed railway network with connections to, among others, Armagh City, Culloville, Goraghwood, Markethill, Vernersbridge, Tynan (see History of rail transport in Ireland ) but today only Newry (Bessbrook), Portadown, Poyntzpass, Scarva, and Lurgan are served by rail. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good lightly used condition, light wear, light reading creases to spine area, minor marks. By June 1971 the situation had deteriorated after the killing of three soldiers and the shooting dead of two men by the Army. In August protest and violence increased further with the introduction of internment: the arrest, interrogation and detention of Republican suspects without trial.

Continuity IRA claims PSNI murder". RTÉ News and Current Affairs. 10 March 2009. Archived from the original on 11 March 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2009.There are also a number of uninhabited islands in the county's section of Lough Neagh: Coney Island Flat, Croaghan Flat, Padian, Phil Roe's Flat and the Shallow Flat. In 1981, 10 Republican prisoners starved themselves to death, protesting for political status - the right to be treated as prisoners of war. This greatly increased support for PIRA and its political wing, Sinn Fein.