Description From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist.
Mass mobilisations of people and dramatic political crises punctuated a seem.
For many years, this appeared to be an intractable conflict with no pathway out.
The traumas of violence in the Northern Ireland Troubles have cast a long shadow.
Description From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist