A detailed account, in diary form, of the civil and political unrest in Northern Ireland, spanning 30 years from the late 1960s to the end of the 20th century. The book also provides short essays which look back at the major events, assessing their significance and setting them in context, including: Bloody Sunday (1972), the collapse of the Power Sharing Executive (1974), the Republican hunger strikes (1981), the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), the first IRA ceasefire (1994) and the historic Good Friday Agreement (1998).