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Pages in category "Murder victims from County Antrim" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Massereene Barracks shooting took place at Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland. On 7 March 2009, two off-duty British soldiers of the 38 Engineer Regiment were shot dead outside the barracks. Two other soldiers and two civilian delivery men were also shot and wounded during the attack.
Roddy McCorley (died 28 February 1800) was an Irish nationalist from the civil parish of Duneane, County Antrim, Ireland.Following the publication of the Ethna Carbery poem bearing his name in 1902, where he is associated with events around the Battle of Antrim, he is alleged to have been a member of the United Irishmen and claimed as a participant in their rebellion of 1798.
9 November: A Protestant civilian was found beaten-to-death in a quarry near Newtownabbey, County Antrim. It is thought he was killed by UVF members as part of a loyalist feud. [223] 27 November: Jackie Mahood, an ex-PUP politician, was shot and wounded at his taxi depot in north Belfast, apparently as part of a loyalist feud. [224]
The county was administered by Antrim County Council from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973. [25] The traditional county town is Antrim. More recently, Ballymena was the seat of county government. From 1973 Northern Ireland was split into districts, which were redrawn in 2015. County Antrim is part of the ...
Martinstown (Irish: Baile Uí Mháirtín) [1] is a small village in County Antrim, Northern IrelandLocated 6 miles from Ballymena, it is situated in Glenravel, locally known as "The Tenth Glen", alongside the widely known nine Glens of Antrim.
Today, the Ballymacarrett/Short Strand areas of Belfast remain basically segregated and violence still occurs. The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 resulting in three deaths and at least 26 wounded. [57]
The Battle of Antrim was fought on 7 June 1798, in County Antrim, Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between British troops and Irish insurgents led by Henry Joy McCracken. The British won the battle, beating off a rebel attack on Antrim town following the arrival of reinforcements but the county governor, John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O ...