Editing The Troubles (section)

== Name ==
The word "troubles" has been used as a synonym for violent conflict for centuries. It was used to describe the 17th-century [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] by all three national parliaments. For example, after the [[Restoration (1660)|Restoration]] in 1660, the English ''[[S:An act of free and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion|Act of free and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion]]'' starts with "The King's most excellent Majesty, taking into his gracious and serious consideration the long and great troubles&nbsp;..."; as does the similar act in Scotland: "The king's most excellent majesty, considering that by the late troubles diverse of his subjects&nbsp;..." (Scottish Parliament 1662); and by the [[Parliament of Ireland|Irish Parliament]] in the [[Act of Settlement 1662#The Act of 1665|Act of Explanation (1665)]] "our royal father of blessed memory had been forced, during the late troubles, to make with the Irish subjects of that our kingdom" (Irish Parliament 1665, § 2). The term was used to describe the [[Irish revolutionary period]] in the early twentieth century.<ref name="cottrell">{{cite book |author=Peter Cottrell |title=The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1913–1922 |date=2006 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-84603-023-9 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMpGh8UyICgC&pg=PA7 |access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref> It was subsequently adopted to refer to the escalating violence in Northern Ireland after 1969.<ref name="storey">{{cite book |author=Michael L. Storey |title=Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction |date=2004 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=978-0-8132-1366-8 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eAVjfnn0SYC&pg=PA2 |access-date=23 January 2015 |archive-date=20 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420065038/https://books.google.com/books?id=2eAVjfnn0SYC&pg=PA2 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Peter Rose (2001), ''How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland''. p. 94. {{isbn|978-0333753460}}.</ref><ref>Anisseh Van Engeland & Rachael M. Rudolph. ''From Terrorism to Politics'' (2008), Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. p, 59. {{isbn|978-0754649908}}.</ref><ref>Ryan Hackney and Amy Blackwell Hackney. ''The Everything Irish History & Heritage Book'' (2004). p. 200<!-- publishing info; ISBN needed --></ref>