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Some 70 years ago, after the War of Independence and a bloody civil war, Ireland was partitioned with the 6 Northern counties, from a total of 32, remaining British counties within the United Kingdom. Eventually, the other 26 counties became the independent Republic of Ireland. In Northern Ireland, a local Parliament Stormont governed the Northern State with a guaranteed majority of Loyalists committed to the union with Great Britain. Approximately two thirds of Northern Ireland’s population were of the Protestant faith (Loyalist/Unionist) and one third were Catholics (Republican/Nationalist). Over the decades, there were periodically modest Republican campaigns of violence waged against the Northern State, usually waning through lack of support from the existing Nationalist minority in Northern Ireland.
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Loughrey, G.C., Curran, P.S., Bell, P. (1993). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Civil Violence in Northern Ireland. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_31
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