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French journalists have described the “Troubles” mainly as a mediaeval war of religion between Catholics and Protestants, a civil war between a poor minority and a privileged majority and also as a colonial conflict, in which the native Irish population is trying to remove British rule. Read more
There was a deep Left/Right political divide in the French press regarding the IRA. Read more
No other events during the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ caused more interest in France than the 1981 Hunger Strike and Bobby Sands’ death, which occurred during the French Presidential campaign and which were appropriated by the left-wing paper Libération and the pro-Communist L ‘Humanité to prove that the French Left was able to defend human rights and French democratic values. Read more