Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Arewacin Ireland na cikin wani yanayi na tashin hankali. 'Yan tawaye sun dasa bama-bamai kuma sun kashe abokan gabanta, ciki har da Airey Neave a shekarar 1979, babban abokin Thatcher wanda aka tsara zai dauki nauyin can. Sojojin 'Yancin Kasa na Irish (INLA), wata kungiyar' yan Republican, ta dauki alhakin. A ranar 27 ga Agusta 1979, IRA ta kashe Lord Mountbatten, memba na dangin sarauta, kuma wasu rukunin sun kashe 'yan sanda 18. Sa'a ce kawai a safiyar ranar 12 ga Oktoba, 1984 ta ceci rayuwar Thatcher yayin da aka kashe mutane biyar ta hanyar bam da Sojojin Jamhuriyar Irish na wucin gadi suka sanya a Grand Hotel na Brighton
yayin taron jam'iyyar Conservative.