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 […]
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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
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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,
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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
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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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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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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
Informing the General Officer Commanding of the McGurk’s Bar Bombing Read More »
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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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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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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