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Brevity being brief

Contemporary existing/happening in recent/the same time

Conquest take over

Controversy hot topic, disagreement

Colonize take control over land

Sectarian violence conflict between parts of an group, religious/political

Ulster Northern Ireland

Penal laws laws against catholics

Concession giving up something

Famine starvation, lack of food

Home rule bill law that allows self determination

Martyrs killed/died because of their beliefs

Republican a government with a president

Parliament legislative body of government, makes the laws

Independance breaking free from others

Treaty formal agreement

Segregation isolation between people

Civil rights freedoms of citizens, freedom of speech

PM (Prime Minister) head of a government

Biased taking a specific side of an argument

Constabulary police force

Paramilitary armed force similar to a military

Curfew making people stay indoors between specific hours

Internment imprisonment, putting people in prison/like prison

Ire anger

Tough tits Tough luck

Honeymoon holiday after a wedding/happy day

Reprisal retaliation, revenge

Checkpoints barriers or entrance between two sides

Barricades barriers to block others

Insurgent rebel

Domestic (as in "domestic flight") within a country

Disband break up

Sentiment view or opinion

Ostracized excluded from a group

Incarcerated put in prison

Back-channel negotiation private negotiations

Barter trading goods or services

tit-for-tat eye for an eye

Ceasefire temporary stoppage of war/conflict

Retaliate revenge, reprisal

Inventive imaginative or creative

Guerilla attacks targeted attacks and suprise attacks

Virtual ("virtually unknown") almost

Taxing effects bad consequence

POW (prisoner of war) caught by the enemy

Hunger strike refusal to eat as a protest

MP (Member of parliament) person elected in UK

Assembly gathered people

Discredit harm reputation

Assassinate killed for a reason

Advisory role giving advice to someone

Morale confidence and discipline of a group

Mortars weapon to throw grenades

Commission group of people or a role given to someone

Torment severe suffering

First Minister (UK government) Leader of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

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