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McGurk’s Bar Documentary Airs in America

By Ciarán | July 14, 2014

Our documentary, McGurk’s Bar Bombing: Loss of Innocence, has just been shown in America on Today’s Ireland. You can watch it here: The McGurk’s Bar Bombing: Loss of Innocence Many thanks as always to the great work of Marilyn Hyndman and the team at Northern Visions. Check out Today’s Ireland schedule

The MRF and its Director of Terrorism

By Ciarán | June 28, 2014

Digging for documents in the National Archives in Kew, London, at the start of the year, a “personal and confidential” letter dated 30th December 1971 caught my eye. It was from Howard Smith, Whitehall’s UK Representative in Northern Ireland, to leading civil servant, Philip Woodfield CBE, head of the Northern Ireland department at the Home […]

Lord Gerry Fitt – Snake in the Grass?

By Ciarán | June 12, 2014

Whilst researching the murder of my grandmother, Kathleen Irvine, and 14 other innocent civilians in the McGurk’s Bar bombing in 1971, I came across a gut-wrenching document. Of all of the buried documents which I have discovered and placed in the public domain, the contents of this particular document left me more deflated than the […]

Gerard's parents, Sarah and Edward Keenan

Gerard Keenan… In Their Footsteps

By Ciarán | June 8, 2014

By Gerard Keenan, son of Edward and Sarah Keenan who were murdered in the McGurk’s Bar massacre on 4th December 1971. A pair of shoes on a pavement and a note… It is a striking image. I will leave two pairs of old shoes and two notes for my parents as I lost both. 4th […]

In Their Footsteps

By Ciarán | June 3, 2014

In Their Footsteps – the mission: We intend to mobilise families and individuals throughout Ireland who wish to pursue truth and justice for their loved ones killed and/or injured as a result of the conflict, to unite for a peaceful Day of Action in Dublin on Saturday, 14 June 2014. This date for has […]

Six Pub Blast Victims Buried in Belfast

By Ciarán | May 28, 2014

For such a short article, its words resounded as I worked this evening, and not only because it recounted the funerals of six of the fifteen victims of the McGurk’s Bar bombing including my own grandmother, Kathleen Irvine. Blogger John Ó Néill sent me this article from The Irish Times of Wednesday 8th December, […]

Disinformation in The Times Newspaper

By Ciarán | May 20, 2014

Disinformation in The Times newspaper, by John Chartres John Chartres was the “independent witness” to the infamous Widgery Report in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday which sought to exonerate 1 Para for their murders on 30th January 1972. Chartres testified that he witnessed nail bombs in the pockets of one of the teenage dead, Gerald Donaghey, although […]

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny speaks to the crowd at Dublin and Monaghan Commemoration

Baby Doherty – 40 Years On and Still No Truth

By Ciarán | May 17, 2014

A poem written in memory of Baby Doherty and recited at the 40th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings Baby Doherty And it was never known if I was boy or girl Never placed on the public record. I wasn’t even a statistic. I wasn’t counted in the cold numbers of the dead. […]

Tracing the McGurk’s Bar Lie to the Police

By Ciarán | May 12, 2014

Read the RUC’s lies in the the police file, Duty Officers’ Report, 5th December 1971 Read RUC Put Out False Story Within Hours of McGurk’s Bar Attack from the Irish News

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The cover of the new book by Ciarán MacAirt called Trope

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Support the work of the charity, Paper Trail.

The author Ciarán MacAirt is donating all of the profits of his book, Trope: Essays and Articles, to Paper Trail and its work with victims and survivors of the conflict, including the families of the McGurk's Bar Massacre.

Trope features some of his ground-breaking discoveries and represents a personal journey as he trudges across the killing ﬁelds of World War 1 to the back-streets of Belfast where death-squads roamed. In it, he asks whether General Sir Frank Kitson who helped cover up the McGurk's Bar Massacre was a British military hero or director of terrorism. Foreword by Father Sean McManus, international human rights activist, author, and President of the Irish National Caucus.

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