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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. […]
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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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Informing the General Officer Commanding of the McGurk’s Bar Bombing

By Ciarán | May 12, 2014
Read the Director of Operations Brief to General Officer Commanding Lt. General Sir Harry Tuzo Read GB Army knew bar blast not IRA fault from the Irish News
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Time for Truth

McGurk’s Bar in the News

By Ciarán | May 8, 2014
Below is a news review of the last few months regarding McGurk’s Bar and our campaign for truth. To court we go…   1st May 2014  BBC: McGurk’s Bar bombing families to sue government. Read more… 30th April 2014  BBC: McGurk’s Bar bombing: 69 year-old released. Read more… 30th April 2014 Irish Post: 69 year-old man […]
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Fusilier Thomas's record in 2RRF's War Diary

Fusilier Thomas: A Forgotten Victim

By Ciarán | January 25, 2014
It was the reasoned crisis of his soul Against more days of inescapable thrall         S.I.W., Wilfred Owen Official records tend to be dry, perfunctory and prosaic. Documents like Director of Operations Brief, Duty Officer Report or Brigade Intelligence Summary may catalogue moments of violence and destruction but the words rarely convey context or the […]
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Chief Constable Matt Baggott oversaw the irrational HET report

Checklist For HET Report

By Ciarán | November 29, 2013
In the coming days the Chief Constable will be forced by the court to hand over a report by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) which was “completed” nearly a year ago.   We were forced to take Matt Baggott to court as we considered that his unprecedented suppression of the HET report was irrational, unlawful […]
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Amnesty International - Northern Ireland: Time To Deal with the Past

Amnesty International and McGurk’s Bar

By Ciarán | November 16, 2013
In June 2012, we met with renowned researchers from Amnesty International and told them our story. They went away and investigated the service journey we have suffered with the state authorities. In September of this year, Amnesty International released Northern Ireland: Time to Deal With The Past, a withering indictment of the state’s failure to […]
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Another Year… And We Are Still Waiting

By Ciarán | November 15, 2013
ESTRAGON: (having tried in vain to work it out). I’m tired! (Pause.) Let’s go. VLADIMIR: We can’t. ESTRAGON: Why not? VLADIMIR: We’re waiting for Godot.   This time last year we launched our book at the historic Clifton House on North Queen Street which is just down the road from where McGurk’s Bar once stood. […]
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Time for Truth

The Past and How It Impacts Upon the Present in the North of Ireland

By Ciarán | November 12, 2013
A written submission by Ciarán MacAirt to Dr. Haass and Dr. O’ Sullivan of the Panel of Parties, NI Executive. “The Past and How It Impacts Upon the Present in the North of Ireland” was written in October 2013 on behalf of our loved ones who were killed or injured in the pro-State Loyalist bombing […]
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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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