31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.
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Martin Waddell, writing as Catherine Sefton, publishes Starry Night, the first of a series of three young-adult novels set in The Troubles.
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