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Distro - End Of British Army Operation In Northern Ireland 

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The British army's operation in Northern Ireland has come to an end after 38 years.
Operation Banner - the Army's support role for the police - had been its longest continuous campaign, with more than 300,000 personnel taking part.
British troops were sent to Northern Ireland in 1969, at the request of the Unionist government, after violent clashes between Catholics and Protestants. At first many Northern Irish Catholics saw them as saviours; come to protect them from loyalist mob violence, before long most Irish nationalists had begun to see the troops not in the context of the immediate... 

Bruno Barbey 1971

NORTHERN IRELAND. Londonderry. 1971. Street fighting against... 

Bruno Barbey 1971

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. 1971. A British soldier speaking with... 

Bruno Barbey 1971

Belafst. Irish boys throwing rocks on British tommies. 

Bruno Barbey 1971

Belfast. 1971. British soldiers on street fighting against Irish... 

Ian Berry 1971

Northern Ireland. Londonderry. British soldiers hide behind... 

Ian Berry 1971

Northern Ireland. Londonderry. British soldiers armed with batons... 

Ian Berry 1971

Northern Ireland. Londonderry. Army seize suspected leaders... 

Leonard Freed 1971

UK/NORTHERN IRELAND. Londonderry. 1971. 

Abbas 1972

GB. Northern Ireland. Belfast. 1972. A woman wounded by an IRA... 

Abbas 1972

G.B. NORTHERN IRELAND. Londonderry. British soldiers on patrol... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1972

NORTHERN IRELAND. This soldier was facing a hostile crowd of... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1972

NORTHERN IRELAND. Shopping over the watchful eye of the ever-present... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1972

NORTHERN IRELAND. Derry/Londonderry. 1972. Catholic girl mocks... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1972

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. 1972. Some owners trained their dogs... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1973

NORTHERN IRELAND. 1973. The incongruities of daily life in the... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1973

NORTHERN IRELAND. Since ancient times, the shield has presented... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Catholic West Belfast. Falls Road.... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Londonderry. Ten years after the arrival... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Crossmaglen, South Armagh. Ten years after... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Crossmaglen, South Armagh. Ten years after... 

Peter Marlow 1979

G.B. NORTHERN IRELAND. Londonderry. Ten years after the arrival... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Londonderry. Ten years after the arrival... 

Peter Marlow 1979

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. 1979. 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Ten years after the arrival of British... 

Peter Marlow 1979

GB. Northern Ireland. Belfast. Ten years after the arrival of... 

Peter Marlow 1981

GB. Northern Ireland. Londonderry riots in response to the deaths... 

Peter Marlow 1981

NORTHERN IRELAND. Londonderry. Riots in response to the deaths... 

Peter Marlow 1981

GB. NORTHERN IRELAND. Hunger strikes in the Maze prison. Demonstrations... 

Peter Marlow 1981

GB. NORTHERN IRELAND. Hunger strikes in the Maze prison. Demonstrations... 

Peter Marlow 1981

U.K. NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. The funeral of Bobby SANDS, following... 

Ian Berry 1981

Northern Ireland. Belfast. Boy looks on intently to see what... 

Ian Berry 1981

Northern Ireland. Belfast. British troops patrol under wall signs... 

Patrick Zachmann 1991

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Balymurphy, republican district. March... 

Abbas 1997

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. 1997. A British soldier patrols middle... 

Abbas 1997

IRELAND. Portadown. 1997. British soldiers in anti-riot gear,... 
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