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	*] ] - Kevin Duffy (20), a ] member of the ] (INLA), was found shot by the ] (IPLO) in the playground of St Brigid's School, Nursery Road, Armagh, as the result of an INLA/IPLO feud.
	*] ] - Stephen McKinney (22), a ] off duty member of the ] (UDR), was shot and killed by the ] outside his home at ], off Loughgall Road, near Armagh.
	*] ] - David Halligan (57), a ], off duty member of the ] (UDR), was shot and killed by the ] (IRA) shortly after leaving Drumad ] base while driving his car along Hamiltonsbawn Road, Armagh.
	*] ] - Derek Monteith (35), a ] off duty member of the ] (RUC), was shot and killed by the ] at his home in Kilburn Park, Armagh.
	*] ] - George Starrett (58), a ] off duty member of the ] (RUC), was shot and killed by the ] at his home, Newry Road, Armagh.
	*] ] - Joshua Willis (35), William Hanson (37) and David Sterritt (34), all ] members of the ] (RUC), were killed in a land mine attack by the ] on their armoured patrol car at Killylea Road, Armagh.
	*] ] - Catherine Dunne (37), a ] ], was killed in the same land mine attack by the ] on the ] (RUC) armoured patrol car, while travelling in another vehicle near to the patrol car at Killylea Road, Armagh.
	*] ] Paul Sutcliffe (32), originally from ], and Roger Love (20), a ], both members of the ] (UDR), were killed in a horizontal mortar attack by the ] on their mobile patrol at Killylea Road, Armagh. Roger Love died on ] ].
	*] ] - Robert Orr (56), a Protestant former member of the ] (RUC), was killed by a ] booby trap bomb attached to his car, which exploded while travelling along The Mall, Armagh.
	*] ] - Brendan McWilliams (50), a ] ] employed by the ], was shot and killed by the ] at his home in Nialls Crescent, off Killylea Road, Armagh.

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For the U.S. city, see Armagh, Pennsylvania.

Template:Ireland city infobox Armagh is a city in Northern Ireland, the capital of County Armagh. In Irish it is known as Ard Mhacha, or Macha's Height. City status was officially re-conferred in 1995. It had a population of 14,590 people in the 2001 Census. The city is home to Armagh Observatory, founded in 1790 and to the Armagh Planetarium established in 1968 to complement the research work of the Armagh Observatory. The city is the second smallest in Ireland (the smallest being Kilkenny).

The headquarters of the Armagh City and District Council is in Armagh. The city has a long reputation as an administrative centre and currently located in the city is the headquarters of the Southern Education and Library Board and the Southern Health Board. It has a Georgian area of heritage importance.

Armagh is the seat of an Anglican and a Catholic archbishop, the Archbishop of Armagh, both of whom hold the position of Primate of All Ireland for their respective denomination. The secretariat of the North-South Ministerial Council is based in Armagh, and consists jointly of members of the civil services of both Northern Ireland and the Republic.

History

Armagh has been the spiritual capital of Ireland for 1500 years.It is the historical center of the cultus of Saint Patrick, the center of a network of congregations. Brian Boru is buried in the cemetery of the Protestant St. Patrick's Cathedral. He is credited with driving the Norsemen out of Ireland in 1014.

It has also been an educational centre since the time of St. Patrick leading to it being known as the city of saints and scholars. St. Patrick decreed that only those educated in Armagh could spread the gospel. The educational tradition was carried on with the foundation of the Royal School, Armagh in 1608. Generously assisted by Archbishop Robinson in the 18th Century, the school along with the Armagh Observatory formed part of the Archbishops plan to have a university founded in the city. This ambition was finally fulfilled, albeit briefly, in the 1990s when Queens University Belfast opened an outreach centre in the former City Hospital building.

The Armagh rail disaster occurred on June 12, 1889 near Armagh.

Administration

The city is run by Armagh City and District Council, which covers a larger area than just the city, but not the entire county. Together with part of the district of Newry and Mourne, it forms the Newry & Armagh constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly. The MP is Conor Murphy of Sinn Fein, he is a former IRA prisoner and a member of the Sinn Fein negotiations team. He won the seat in the 2005 General Election after the retirement long-serving SDLP MP Seamus Mallon.

2001 Census

Armagh City is classified as a Medium Town by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with population between 10,000 and 18,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 14,590 people living in Armagh. Of these:

25.1% were aged under 16 years and 17.5% were aged 60 and over
48.1% of the population were male and 51.9% were female
68.3% were from a Catholic background and 30.2% were from a Protestant background
5.1% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed.

For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service

External links

References

NI Conflict Archive on the Internet

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