Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh

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Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. hdl: 10197/1406. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. I remember we started to be successful at the football and going into him one day, and he says, ‘this is brilliant, we’ll no longer be known as bandit country, we’ll be known for the football we play’. The people here work to improve things for themselves because they accept they’re not going to get anything from anybody else — Úna Walsh Pennsylvania State Senate – John J McCreesh Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved 8 February 2019. County Armagh is traversed by the Ulster Canal and the Newry Canal which are not fully open to navigation.

Between 1971 and 1997, there were 123 British soldiers killed in south Armagh – about a fifth of British military Trouble-related deaths in the North – along with 41 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police officers and 75 civilians. You go through your life and think, ‘ah that’s not really having any effect on me’ and then I had my own issues obviously,” McConville says.

Troops leave

Paul Muldoon (1951– ), born in County Armagh, poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize That might be your football for the evening and all of a sudden you had to go beg, borrow or steal to try and get a new one to continue on the training session. Sir William Olpherts (1822–1902), born in County Armagh, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross Ian Paisley (1926– 2014), born in County Armagh, clergyman, politician, second First Minister of Northern Ireland

The county was administered by Armagh County Council from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973. [20] John McCreesh, American politician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1935 to 1958 was born in Armagh County in 1881. [31] Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972". Legislation.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019 . Retrieved 29 November 2019.

Internment

Armagh ceased to serve as an electoral constituency in 1983, but remains the core of the Newry and Armagh constituency represented at Westminster and the Newry and Armagh constituency represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly. County Armagh also remains as a district for legal and property purposes; however, its baronies no longer have any administrative use. It seemed much smaller, it was like going into somewhere new again. There was nothing readily identifiable other than the square,” Mains says. In places like Fermanagh you always got the sense that something might happen – in Crossmaglen, you always got the sense that something would happen,” an ex-British soldier tells The Irish Times. As you went along, you got to know who was who. The paratroopers were obviously the ones with the red hats. So if they were in town you were afraid to go outside the door because they were the worst. They would literally batter you if they got you on your own.

If you walked down through the town you’d be guaranteed your bag would be taken off you by the soldiers — Oisín McConvilleAs the last of the British military watchtowers in south Armagh, its removal was regarded as hugely symbolic. You think we would have got there by now, 25 years on,” says Oisín McConville, a former Crossmaglen and Armagh footballer. Sir Robert Hart (1835–1911), born in County Armagh, second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service (IMCS) from 1863 to 1911 County Armagh is traversed by two major highways – the M1 linking Belfast to Dungannon crosses the north of the county whilst the A1/N1 from Belfast to Dublin runs in the far south east. Other major roads in the county include the A3 and A29.