CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh: Research Secret Files
Help Paper Trail and the campaign group research the secret files around the deployment of CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh on 15th October 1974
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The Battle of St. Matthew’s – Read the British Army Files
Read the British Army files relating to the Battle of St. Matthews in June 1971, a weekend of misery and mayhem many consider a turning point in the conflict.
Bloody Friday – Missing Warnings and Missed Opportunities to Save Lives
Bloody Friday – one of the most devastating days during the conflict. Victims and survivors can read the new evidence we discovered here.
Bloody Friday – New Evidence for Victims and Survivors
Bloody Friday – one of the most devastating days during the conflict. Victims and survivors can read the new evidence we discovered here.
New Evidence: British Army Killed Protestant Civilian and Blamed It on IRA
New evidence that a soldier of the King’s Regiment killed unarmed Protestant civilian, Thomas Mills, but then blamed it on the IRA.
EXECUTION: Three Scottish Soldiers
The British military files brutally exclaim EXECUTION. Today is the 50th anniversary of the execution of three Scottish soldiers on a lonely brae overlooking the city of Belfast. Their names were John McCaig (17), Joseph McCaig (18) and Dougald McCaughey (23). The teenagers were brothers. All were friends and Fusiliers in the 1st Battalion Royal …
40 Years: The Start of the Second Hunger Strike
March 1st 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the second hunger strike. It began when Bobby Sands, the Officer Commanding Irish Republican Army prisoners in the Maze Prison, refused food. At the start of the second hunger strike, Republican prisoners called off the Blanket Protest which began in 1976. This was reported …
Battle of St. Matthew’s 50th Anniversary
The Battle of St. Matthew’s was a pivotal moment in our local history and we have much to learn from it still. The 27/28th June is the 50th anniversary of the battle around the parish church in Short Strand. 3 men were shot dead and over two dozen injured. The local area around Ballymacarrett and …
British Information Policy and Propaganda 1971
Read about British Information Policy and Propaganda in the North of Ireland 1971 in these short papers. In July 1971, Clifford Hill was seconded by Britain’s covert propaganda unit, Information Research Department, to the Northern Ireland Office to promote British information policy and propaganda. In Stormont circles, he was known as “Cliff the Spy”. His …