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“Black Protestants”
The term Black Irish is mostly used today in an Irish context as in “black Protestants” in Northern Ireland to denote those who are especially anti-Catholic still.
Chill ///The soldiers on that day didn’t deliberately set out from barracks with the express purpose of killing someone.///
Col.Wilford defied a senior officer's instructions.I have heard him give several interviews over the years and he is deeply arrogant and dismissive in his attitude.He fails to recognise that any fault lies with his actions on the fateful day.
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I maintain though that he took what he thought was necessary action on that day. Furthermore, as I’ve said the soldiers that day didn’t leave barracks with the express purpose nor instructions to carry out murder, unlike the PIRA/INLA who did so every time they mounted an operation.
Chrissa1,nobody had to find him.He was there.An inquiry was held that lasted an eternity.Evidence is such that it is seen fit to bring charges against him.
What about the two off-duty soldiers who blundered into a funeral march, and got beaten and stabbed to death, for no other reason than they were British soldiers??
We lived in Bangor Co Down at the time and I remember it with horror and sadness.
Chrissa1,convictions were made in that incident but as the book 'Fatal Encounter' demonstrates,there was a strong possibility of a miscarriage of justice too believe it or not.
Two people were prosecuted convicted and jailed for that.
It was part of a gruesome chain of events that started with “death on the rock”, which led to the Michael Stone attacks at funerals of those killed, victims of which were in turn being buried that day.
One reason I’m quite glad of “Anthony Blair” and co for helping to stop all that.
I must read that book, ag. I remember it so well because on the evening it happened, two neighbours of ours called round to our house to apologise to us, as Brits, for the actions of their countrymen.
My late husband had gone into work on that Saturday between the Falls Road and the Shankhill Road and decided to return home at lunchtime by a different route, thank God.
We talked that evening about how it could have been him.
It was a crazy month with allegations of 'Shoot to Kill' SAS and who could forget Michael Stone and his later Stormont attack which he claimed was nothing more than 'Performance Art'!!
He would have been lynched at the motorway bordering the Milltown cemetery were it not for the police....
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