evidence: The outcome of that conflict – a nationalist Southern state that did not achieve full independence until 1949 and a Northern unionist regime which excluded its Catholic nationalist minority from power until its prorogation in 1972 – incentivised violent republican campaigns every decade from the 1920s until the 1960s, when the Troubles ushered in three decades of violent conflict. Despite the success of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in restoring devolution to Northern Ireland, low-level ‘dissident’ republican violence persists to the present day. Throughout all of these conflicts, each side accused their opponents of engaging in ‘terrorism’, although the term ‘terrorist’ was seldom used before the Troubles.Footnote 6 [...] The Northern Irish Troubles, 1969–1998