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Gordon Wilson (25 September 1927 – 27 June 1995) was a draper in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, who became known internationally as a peace campaigner during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 8 November 1987 a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded during Enniskillen's Remembrance Day parade, injuring Wilson and fatally injuring his ...
Pages in category "The Troubles in County Fermanagh" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
24 October 1972 – Michael Naan (31) and Andrew Murray (24), Catholic civilians, were found stabbed to death at the Naan family farm at Aughnahinch, on the southern outskirts of Newtownbutler. They were murdered by members of a patrol from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on suspicion that they were IRA members.
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26 August 1972 - Lance Corporal Alfred Johnston (32) and Private James Eames (33), both members of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote controlled bomb, hidden in an abandoned car and detonated when their patrol approached at Cherrymount, on the outskirts of Enniskillen.
On 23 October 1972 at around 4:20 p.m., two soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Sgt. Stanley Hathaway and Cpl. John Byrne, attacked farmer and civil rights activist Michael Naan (31) and laborer Andrew Joseph Murray (24) with a Bowie knife, while they were lifting hay off a trailer at Naan’s farm in Aughnahinch, County Fermanagh.
Two of the RUC officers (Stephen Fyfe and John Martin) giving a lecture at the time died instantly, another (William McDonald) died of his injuries on 12 August 1984. [ 43 ] 5 November: an off-duty RUC officer (John McFadden) was shot dead by the IRA outside his home, Bamford Park, Rasharkin , County Antrim.
Born in Gort, County Galway, and educated in Athlone, Maguire worked in his youth in a pub owned by his uncle, future Nationalist Party politician John Carron.He was attracted to the cause of Irish Republicanism and was interned without trial in Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast for two years, within which he was the Irish Republican Army Commanding Officer.