The British Army Withdraws from Ulster

Belfast Northern Ireland British troops
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Divided Loyalties
Soldiers man a barrier at the beginning of the Protestant section of the Ardoyne Road in Belfast, September 2001. Violence had flared up as Catholics escorted their young children through a Protestant area on the way to school.

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