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On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings . Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
Andersonstown, known colloquially as Andytown, is a suburb of west Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the foot of the Black Mountain and Divis Mountain. It contains a mixture of public and private housing and is largely a working-class area with a strong Irish nationalist and Irish Catholic tradition.
1976 Andersonstown incident. / 54.56967°N 5.99017°W / 54.56967; -5.99017. The 1976 Andersonstown incident or the 1976 Andersonstown-Finaghy incident, was a brief altercation between members of the Provisional IRA and the British Army, in Andersonstown and North Finaghy, in August 1976. Which resulted in the deaths of 3 children who ...
The Belfast Media Group's Andersonstown News is a weekly published (Wednesdays) Belfast, Northern Ireland newspaper, which focuses on news and issues in west Belfast. The paper was founded in 1972. [ 1] Its stablemates, the North Belfast News and South Belfast News, are published weekly. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the ...
The IRA abducted Fenton on 24 February 1989, and took him to a house in the Lenadoon area of Belfast. [10] He was interrogated by the ISU and confessed to working as an informer for Special Branch, and was court-martialled. [11] Fenton was found dead in an alley in Lenadoon on 26 February 1989; he had been shot four times.
August 5, 2024 at 4:32 PM. A worker in a Belfast shop that burned in violent scenes following an anti-immigration protest has called for action and change to prevent it happening again. Bashir ...
The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland. [ 2] It emerged in December 1969, shortly after the beginning of the Troubles, when the ...
Casement Park ( Irish: Páirc Mhic Asmaint) [ 4][ 5] is the principal Gaelic games stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland, that served as the home ground of the Antrim hurling and Gaelic football teams. It is located in Andersonstown Road in the west of the city, and is named after the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement.