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The bomb was placed outside the Ulsterbus depot on Broad Street, a main thoroughfare of Magherafelt. The bus station was entirely demolished by the blast and the town's Ulster Bank branch was damaged extensively; both were since redeveloped. Seamus Heaney wrote about the bombing in his poem Two Lorries. [2]
Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Irish: [mˠək ˈɟɪl̪ˠə ˈvʲɾʲiːdʲə] 29 August 1957 – 2 December 1984), English Tony or Anthony MacBride (also misspelled McBride), was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer from Desertmartin, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. [1]
4 May: a Catholic civilian (Victor Andrews, aged 20) was found stabbed to death in an entry off Baltic Avenue, New Lodge, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible. [10] [9] 14 May: a Catholic civilian (Gerard McCusker, aged 24) was found beaten and shot dead on waste ground at Hopeton Street, Shankill Road, Belfast. It is believed the ...
5 May: Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike. His death caused riots in many parts of Northern Ireland, and also in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 people attended his funeral. [9] 5 May: an IRA volunteer was injured and another arrested in a gun battle in South Armagh.
Individual Party Born Died Constituency(ies) represented Election(s) won Joe Ashton [2020 1]: Labour: 9 October 1933 30 March 2020 Bassetlaw: 1968 (by-election), 1970, 1974 I & II, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997
Sir James Starritt KCVO (15 May 1914 – 19 September 2000 [1]), often known as Jim Starritt, was a British police officer in the London Metropolitan Police.. Starritt was born in Carrigans, a tiny village in the Laggan district of eastern County Donegal, Ireland, the son of a land auctioneer.
1 April: The IRA exploded a large bomb in Belfast city centre, damaging a number of shops but causing no deaths or serious injuries. [5] 26 June: two IRA volunteers, Joseph Coyle and Thomas McCool, were killed in a premature explosion of an incendiary device at the McCool home at Dunree Gardens, Creggan, Derry. McCool's two young daughters ...
Born at Town Parks, Magherafelt, County Londonderry and described as a "devout Roman Catholic", he studied at St Columb's College and at Queen's University Belfast. [2] In 1948 he was called to the Bar and in 1967 became Queen's Counsel, having served in the county courts of Armagh, Fermanagh and Antrim. [3] He was first named to a judgeship in ...