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The 28 pages that link to The Troubles, each with the reason it gives.

• Irish nationalismRelated: It renewed disputes over sovereignty and national identity through prolonged political violence.

• Good Friday AgreementNarrower topic: The agreement was negotiated to end the conflict and establish a peaceful political framework.

• Irish republicanismRelated: Republican armed campaigns and political organizing were central to the conflict’s course.

• Partition of IrelandRelated: Partition's unresolved national and constitutional divisions formed the conflict's enduring backdrop.

• Northern IrelandBroader topic: The conflict transformed society and made a political settlement urgent.

• Irish Republican ArmyBroader topic: The Provisional IRA was a major armed actor in this conflict.

• Northern Ireland peace processNarrower topic: The peace process sought to end this conflict and address its political divisions.

• IrelandRelated: The conflict made the border and competing national identities central political issues.

• Gerry AdamsNarrower topic: Adams’s political career unfolded within this conflict and remains contested because of it.

• Ian PaisleyNarrower topic: Paisley’s politics developed amid and influenced the conflict that transformed Northern Ireland.

• John HumeNarrower topic: Hume’s career unfolded amid this conflict and centered on finding a political alternative to it.

• BelfastRelated: Belfast was a central site of the conflict and its daily consequences.

• SectarianismBroader topic: It shows how divisions associated with Catholic and Protestant communities intertwined with competing national identities.

• Unionism in IrelandRelated: Unionist opposition to Irish unity and conflict over state power formed part of its political context.

• Seamus HeaneyRelated: The conflict forms a central historical pressure behind Heaney’s poems about responsibility and violence.

• Provisional Irish Republican ArmyNarrower topic: The Provisional IRA was one of the principal armed organizations in this wider conflict.

• Bobby SandsNarrower topic: Sands’s imprisonment and protest unfolded within this wider conflict.

• Edward HeathRelated: Heath’s government introduced direct rule from Westminster in 1972 as violence escalated.

• Irish theatreRelated: The conflict became a subject and constraint for theatre across the island.

• Colm TóibínRelated: Tóibín’s journalism and essays address the political tensions that shaped modern Irish life.

• Betty WilliamsNarrower topic: Williams’s peace campaign arose amid the conflict’s daily violence.

• History of IrelandBroader topic: Its violence and political settlement reshaped relations across the island.

• History of Northern IrelandBroader topic: The conflict’s deaths and social divisions remain central to the region’s historical legacy.

• History of the Republic of IrelandRelated: The conflict shaped the Republic’s security, diplomacy, and relationship with the North.

• History of the United KingdomBroader topic: The conflict tested the UK’s union and led to a negotiated political settlement.

• J. G. FarrellBroader topic: Farrell’s first Empire Trilogy novel shifts the setting from Ireland to the waning British Empire.

• Stun grenadeRelated: The conflict formed the setting for early development and use of stun grenades.

• Ulster loyalismRelated: Loyalist organizations and communities were participants in, and were transformed by, the conflict.