Shared Troubles

As soon as we have sufficient stories to divide into each of these decade categories you will be able to choose a story from a specific decade of interest.

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Current Stories

Christmas 2009 approaches as the IRA mount a wave of coordinated attacks across Northern...

Brian, Armagh (07/12/2009)

The soldier had been leaning on a wall just across the street from where...

Eileen, Cliftonville Road Belfast (04/10/2009)

One of the many things that sadden and anger me is recalling what...

seamus, belfast (25/09/2009)

I have never spoken of this before to anyone, I mean I have never...

John, County Antrim (06/09/2009)

Have you heard the one about the Shinner, the PSNI officer and the Loyalist?...

Gerard, co.Antrim (16/07/2009)

“Frank, do you want to sit down for a while” Con had asked me...

Frank, Belfast (10/07/2009)

Alone a mans sits in a room
far away from home
holding fading memories
of a world...

Pol Mac Thomas, Belfast (09/07/2009)

“Name?” he ask, are should I say, he demanded. “Paul Macklin” I said to...

paul, belfast (28/06/2009)

I guess there can be many reasons why some people come to a better...

John, County Antrim (27/06/2009)

“You know something son, I’m not trying to tell you want to do, that...

John.C, Belfast (25/06/2009)

Ok, I’m willing to accept what pointing a handgun at the head of my...

Frank, Belfast (13/06/2009)

on-the-13th-december-1993-my-brother-noel-was-murdered-by-the-UFF-i-have-never-gotten-o ...

e.g. David, Belfast (03/06/2009)

“Mind the stones you throw” Uncle Sean had said to me that day in...

Peter, West Belfast (31/05/2009)

I can’t be sure what it was that drove me, I mean I can’t...

John.C, Belfast (24/05/2009)

He didn’t say he was going to shoot me, no, he said that he...

Frank, Belfast (23/05/2009)

Perhaps blaming the Pope on all of it is a little unfair, after all...

John, County Antrim (02/05/2009)

There had been another coffin carried out of the area that day. That was...

John, County Antrim (30/04/2009)

My father was a primary school headmaster from a big working-class Protestant family in...

James Nesbitt, Ballymena (31/03/2009)

Normality is relative. I, like so many people who will share with this website,...

Barbara, Dungannon (27/03/2009)

Peace People the beginnings…
Shortly after 2 p.m. on August 10th, 1976, an incident...

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Belfast (16/03/2009)

We were over in Derry on the waterside for a family reunion, about 600...

David, Canada (07/03/2009)

I was eight when the Troubles began, sparked by a civil rights march through...

Eamonn Holmes, Belfast (26/02/2009)

It was a cold autumn morning and I was up at 5.30am as...

David, Castlederg (28/01/2009)

I was visiting a quarry in County Derry looking for a particular type of...

Joseph, Coleraine (28/01/2009)

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