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August 14 1969: British troops intervene in rioting during the battle of the Bogside in Derry Photograph: Peter Ferraz/Getty

August 12 1969: An injured protester is carried to safety following violent clashes with the RUC in the Bogside area of Derry Photograph: Peter Ferraz/Getty

August 15 1969: British soldiers on patrol in the mainly Catholic Bogside area of Derry Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty

July 1970: British soldiers impose a curfew on the Falls Road in Belfast Photograph: Malcolm Stroud/Getty

March 24 1971: A British soldier on patrol in Belfast Photograph: John Minihan/Getty

January 30 1972: A soldier attacks a protester on Bloody Sunday, when British paratroopers shot dead 13 civilians on a civil rights march in Derry Photograph: Frederick Hoare/Getty

February 3 1972: The British embassy at Merrion Square in Dublin is bombed after a march protesting against the 'Bloody Sunday' shootings Photograph: Keystone/Getty

September 17 1976: Women chat in their front yards as vehicles burn after riots on the Lower Falls Road in Belfast Photograph: Alex Bowie/Getty

January 31 1979: The interior of a prison cell in the Maze prison, near Belfast, after a dirty protest. Inmates had been denied the status of political prisoners Photograph: Central Press/Getty

c. 1987: Posters in Northern Ireland supporting the Republican political party Sinn Féin and comparing the Northern Irish police force (RUC) and the army (UDR) to the protestant paramilitary groups, the UFF and the UVF Photograph: Kevin Weaver/Getty

September 1988: A vehicle burns after a clash between the IRA and British soldiers Photograph: AFP

July 13 1996: Thousands of mourners follow the hearse carrying the body of Dermot McShane through the streets of Londonderry, killed by an army armoured personnel carrier during rioting Photograph: Gerald Penny/AFP

October 10 1996: An attack against the British army in Lisburn Photograph: Alan Lewis/Corbis

August 22 2000: A soldier stands guard outside a taxi company attacked during violence between rival loyalist paramilitary groups, the UFF and the UVF Photograph: Alan Lewis/Corbis