Ireland Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Ireland. This dataset summarizes reported incidents into country-year and country-month totals, with the most recent update recorded in March 2026. It serves as a high-level monitoring tool for tracking shifts in political instability and civil unrest.

Use Cases

• Analyzing longitudinal trends in Irish political instability using country-year event counts
• Correlating monthly demonstration frequencies with national policy changes or economic shifts
• Monitoring the prevalence of civilian-targeting incidents for humanitarian risk assessment

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized event categories (political violence, civilian-targeting, demonstrations)
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national geographic analysis
• Full event-level data is gated behind a separate registration process
• Unknown total record count in the XLSX summary

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Reported event monitoring and aggregation

Freshness

Updated weekly according to the source metadata.

Geography

Ireland