1972: Fourteen men die after British troops open fire on a civil rights demonstration in Deny. Later in the year, the IRA sets off a series of bombs in the capital of Belfast that kill 11 people.
1979: The IRA assassinates Earl Mountbatten, a World War II hero and a cousin of England's Queen Elizabeth.
1981: Ten IRA prisoners gain worldwide attention and become martyrs when they die in a hunger strike.
1985: The Anglo-Irish Agreement allows the Republic ofIreland's government a consultant's role in matters concerning Northern Ireland.
1993: The Downing Street Declaration, presented by Irish leader Albert Reynolds and British Prime.....
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