Word: andersontown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Betty Williams, 33, was driving home from her invalid mother's house in the Catholic Andersontown district of Belfast on the afternoon of Aug. 10 when she saw a car spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne...
...marine engineer now at sea off Canada. "I was sitting with my sister and a friend, all of us apathetic-like so many others -behind our Venetian blinds. I say, 'I'm going out, and I'm going to knock on people's doors in Andersontown to see how many people feel just as we do.' " The three set off with note pads into an area long known as an IRA stronghold, and within hours, they had hundreds of signatures on a peace petition. "I was like the Pied Piper," says Williams. "I ended...
...following day Mairead Corrigan, a 32-year-old secretary and aunt of the three slain Maguire children, was looking out of her parents' front-porch window in Andersontown when she saw 200 protesting women march by. Corrigan joined Williams' ranks, and together they called for a women's peace rally the next Saturday at the spot where the children had been killed. Some 10,000 women, some wheeling prams, streamed into the rally from Protestant and Catholic districts long regarded as irreconcilably hostile. Another rally was called for the following Saturday, and this time the women arrived...
Dolours and Marion are daughters of a former I.R. A. officer who once tunneled his way out of a Londonderry prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
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