The twentieth century was not a peaceful one for Ireland. In the course of those one hundred years, as well as joining in the general European bloodshed of the two world wars, Ireland also endured its own particular agonies: one uprising, one war of liberation, one civil war and finally one agonisingly long low intensity conflict. There were many violent days for Ireland in the years from 1900 - Bloody Sunday 1921, the attack on the Four Courts, the Luftwaffe's raids on Belfast, Bloody Su...