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On 11 May 2021, this coroner's inquest found that the 10 civilians killed were innocent, and that the use of lethal force by the British Army was "not justified". [8] The circumstances of the 11th death were not part of the inquest, since Paddy McCarthy died from a heart attack, allegedly after being threatened by a soldier. [ 19 ]
Emma Groves was a Belfast mother of 11 children. At 9 a.m. on 4 November 1971, aged 51, she was standing at her living room window during British Army searches on her neighbours' houses. As a mark of defiance, Emma turned on her record player and placed the ballad " Four Green Fields " on her record player and turned up the volume.
9 August: The UVF killed a Presbyterian civilian from County Donegal when it shot at his company van on the motorway near Templepatrick. [62] 11 August: The UVF shot dead a Protestant civilian on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [62] 15 August: The UVF exploded a car bomb at Sportsman's Inn, Belfast. It killed a Catholic civilian. [62]
British children’s author Michael Morpurgo loosely based his 2011 novel An Elephant in the Garden on Austin’s story after hearing about her on the radio. [10] [11]Denise Weston Austin also inspired the 2017 film Zoo, [12] written and directed by Colin McIvor; many parts of the movie were also filmed in Belfast, namely on Union Street, Little Donegall Street, and at the Belfast Zoo itself.
Joe McCann (2 November 1947 – 15 April 1972) was an Irish republican paramilitary.A member of the Irish Republican Army and later the Official Irish Republican Army, he was active in politics from the early 1960s and participated in the early years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
A Terrible Beauty (also known as The Night Fighters) is a 1960 drama film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy and Richard Harris. [2] It was adapted from a 1958 novel of the same name written by Arthur Roth. [ 3 ]
Operation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army (HQ Northern Ireland) in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.The operation took place in the early hours of 31 July 1972 with the aim of retaking the "no-go areas" (areas controlled by residents, [1] including Irish republican paramilitaries) that had been established in Belfast and other urban centres.
[9] [11] [13] Many of the marchers described their assailants' lack of concern about the police presence. The violence was followed by renewed riots in Derry City. [ 14 ] Terence O'Neill described the march as "a foolhardy and irresponsible undertaking" and said that some of the marchers and their supporters in Derry were "mere hooligans ...