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'The Troubles' generally refers to the roughly 30-year period of violence and political dispute in Ireland that spanned from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It is perhaps most well-known for 'Bloody Sunday' in January 1972, when 13 people were killed by soldiers of 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment during a civil rights march. One other man died several months later from injuries believed to have been sustained on Bloody Sunday. The roots of the Troubles can largely be traced back to the 17th century and involve overlapping conflicts over religion and nationalism, and, later, the history of grievances these contests caused. In the early 1600s, the Catholic and Protestant wings of Christianity were at war, and Protestant Scottish and English settlers were encouraged to set up home in the north of Ireland as a buffer against Catholicism there.
