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The Troubles - Coggle Diagram

- - - - INLA/Irish National Liberation Army
        
        Seeked to remove Northern Ireland form the UK, and a United Ireland which would be a Socialist Republic
        
        Far-left organisation
        
        High profile attacks
        
        Droppin Well Bombing
        
        1994 Shankill Road Killing
        
        Assasinations of Aiery Neave (1979) and Billy Wright (1997)
        
        formed out of the official IRA in 1974
      - IRA/Irish Republican Army
        
        There was a split in the IRA in 1970
        
        The official/original was full of marxist jeremy corbyn loving commies who want to nationalise sainsburys and focused more on defensive operations of Catholic areas.
        
        The provisional IRA, which was more traditional and focused on terrorist operations, became the more dominant branch after 1972. Anyone referring to the IRA after 1972 most likely were refencering this branch.
    - - UVF/Ulster Volunteer force
        
        Ulster loyalist paramilitary force founded in 1965, and emerging 1966
        
        British Unionism, Ulster Loyalism, Protestant Extremism
        
        The UVF (ulster volunteer force) were responsible for the most killings of any Loyalist organisation, with the UVF and RHC (a closely affiliated group being responsible for at least 485 killings during the Troubles.
      - UDA /Ulster Defence Association.
        
        Formed in 1971 with the aim of defending protestant areas.however it began to engage in bombing campaign soon after it was formed.
  - - - UUP (Ulster unionist party)
        
        The only major Unionist party until the Troubles and governed Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972.
      - DUP(Democratic Unionist Party)
        
        Formed in 1971 by the reverend Ian Paisley and other Unionists disillusioned with the UUP Moderates.Ian Paisley remained its leader until 2008.
    - - SDLP
        
        Social democratic labour party
        
        Formed by Nationalists such as John Hume in 1970 to advocate for Catholic Civil rights and a United Ireland while rejecting violent methods.
      - Sinn Fein
        
        A republican party that dates back to 1905 however in 1970 it split.
        
        THe new sinn fein party support the provisional IRA and was excluded from negotiations
    - - Formed in 1970 to be a Moderate Unionist party and aimed to attract votes from both Catholic and Protestants (non-sectarian), but over time became neutral in its views about the future of Northern Ireland.