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Hughes joined the Irish Republican Army in 1969, sided with the Provisional faction in the split of 1969–70, and was "on the run" in Belfast by 1970. From 1970 to 1972 Hughes was involved in a number of attacks on British soldiers and bank robberies to raise funds for the republican movement.
He obtained a B.Sc. at Queen's University Belfast in 1926 and obtained his first teaching job in Worcester. He taught Chemistry and Biology in Friends' School, Lisburn from 1927 to 1968. Between 1961 and 1967, he wrote the "Nature Diary" column in the Belfast Telegraph. His obituary was published in the Copeland Bird Observatory Report for 1981.
Born in Belfast on 19 November 1932, [2] Capper started his career at the Newtownards Chronicle. He spent a few years working in Vancouver. Capper later returned to Northern Ireland and worked as an editor at a local newspaper, before joining the Belfast Telegraph and the BBC. Capper left BBC after 26 years, in 1987.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Former Belfast Telegraph offices, July 2010. The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.
Brodie died, aged 86, on 29 January 2013. [1] His funeral was held at Cregagh Presbyterian Church, Belfast. [5] A minute's silence, followed by a minute of applause, was held at all Irish League grounds on the weekend following his death and the Northern Ireland national team wore black armbands as a mark of respect during their next international match. [6]
Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.
Gerald Dawe was born in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up with his mother, sister, and grandmother.He lived mostly in the Skegoniell area and attended Seaview Primary School and then Orangefield Boys Secondary School across the city in East Belfast.