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Soldier is a song written and recorded by Harvey Andrews in 1972. It was released as the B-side of the single "In the Darkness", [ 1 ] and later featured on the album Writer of Songs . An event inspired the song in Belfast , Northern Ireland .
From 1970 to 1972, an explosion of political violence occurred in Northern Ireland. The deadliest attack in the early 1970s was the McGurk's Bar bombing by the UVF in 1971. [115] The violence peaked in 1972, when nearly 500 people, just over half of them civilians, were killed, the worst year in the entire conflict. [116]
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half-hour period. Most of them were car bombs and most targeted infrastructure, especially the transport ...
19 July – A five-month-old boy, Alan Jack, is killed when an IRA car bomb explodes on Canal Street in Strabane. He is the youngest victim of the Troubles up to this point. [7] 21 July – Bloody Friday: Nine people die and over one hundred are injured in a series of Provisional IRA explosions in Belfast city centre. 31 July
14 September – Imperial Hotel bombing 1972: The UVF detonated a car bomb outside a hotel near Antrim Road, Belfast, which killed three people and injured 50 others. 91-year-old Martha Smilie, a Protestant civilian, was the oldest person killed during the Troubles.
The Troubles is the seventeenth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. [1] [2] The album's title and songs are related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.[3]The album contains some well-known Irish rebel songs:
The Battle at Springmartin [2] was a series of gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 13–14 May 1972, as part of The Troubles.It involved the British Army, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
The Springhill massacre was an incident in which five Catholic residents were killed by the British Army in the Springhill estate in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 9 July 1972, during the Troubles. Three of the victims were teenagers, including a 13-year-old girl, and another was a Catholic priest waving a white flag as he went to attend ...