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The shootings were later referred to as Belfast's Bloody Sunday, a reference to the killing of civilians by the same battalion in Derry a few months later, known as Bloody Sunday. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 1972 inquests had returned an open verdict on all of the killings, [ 3 ] but a 2021 coroner's report found that all those killed had been innocent and ...
3 July-5 July – Falls Road Curfew imposed by the British Army in Belfast. [3] 5 July – After a special cabinet meeting the government demands a ban on all parades in Northern Ireland and the disarmament of civilians. 2 August – The British Army first fires rubber bullets in Belfast.
8 September 1974: A Catholic man (Arthur Rafferty, aged 56) died three weeks after being shot on Newington Street, Belfast, by the IRA. A piece of cardboard was found nearby that had written on it: "this is the penalty for a sexual assault on a child of seven years old at the Waterworks".
A week before the Falls Curfew, on Saturday 27 June 1970, there was severe rioting in Belfast following marches by the Protestant/unionist Orange Order. At the Short Strand, a Catholic enclave in a Protestant part of the city, the Provisional IRA fought a five-hour gun battle with loyalists (see Battle of St Matthew's). Three people were killed ...
31 January: the UVF beat to death a UDA member on Adela Street, Belfast as part of a feud between the two groups. 19 February: the UDA shot a Catholic civilian dead at his home on Clifton Crescent, Belfast. 17 March: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he drove along Cambrai Street, Belfast. 3 May: the UUAC strike began.
The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand [1] was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.It was fought between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ulster loyalists in the area around St Matthew's Roman Catholic church.
Brian McDermott was a 10-year-old schoolboy who disappeared in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1973. He was last seen at Ormeau Park on 2 September 1973. [1] He failed to return to his home on Well Street in the lower Woodstock Road area of Cregagh, Belfast. [1]
4 March – Abercorn Restaurant bombing: A bomb exploded without warning in the Abercorn restaurant on Castle Lane, Belfast. Two were killed and another 130 were injured. 23 March – Donegall Street bombing: The IRA detonated a massive car bomb in Lower Donegall Street in Belfast's city centre. Seven people were killed in the explosion ...