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===Northern Ireland=== During [[the Troubles]], the [[Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) mainly attacked targets in Northern Ireland and England, not Scotland or Wales, although the IRA planted a bomb at [[Sullom Voe Terminal]] in [[Shetland]] during a visit by the Queen in May 1981.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1201738.stm | work=BBC News | title=The IRA campaigns in England | date=4 March 2001| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129121311/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1201738.stm | archive-date=29 January 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/10/27/mi5-blamed-bp-for-security-lapse-before-ira-bomb-attack-on-queen-at-sullom-voe|title=MI5 blamed BP for security lapse before IRA bomb attack on Queen at Sullom Voe|date=27 October 2009}}</ref> The ancestry of most people in the Loyalist and Unionist communities is [[Ulster Scots people|Scottish]] rather than English.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} In the [[Protestantism in Ireland|Protestant]] community, the English are identified with British politicians and are sometimes resented for their perceived abandonment of loyalist communities.<ref>Bruce, S. (1994). ''The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision.'' Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press.</ref>
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