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| 1968 |
| | | The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Provisional IRA reintroduces terrorism to northern Ireland after Protestants attack a civil rights march | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Northern Irish player George Best is voted European Footballer of the Year | |
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| 1970 |
| | | The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is formed in northern Ireland as a coalition of Catholic nationalists and civil-rights campaigners | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Gerry Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of evidence | |
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| 1972 |
| | | British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Prime minister Jack Lynch leads Ireland into the European Community | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Internment is ended in Ulster after the Gardiner Report states that it brings the law into disrepute | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Excavation of the 5200-year-old passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland is completed | |
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