Word: armagh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northern Ireland, where killing has become almost matter-of-fact, the bloodshed, meanwhile, continued to mount, taking the lives of 20 people in only one week. In six years of fighting, 1,308 have been killed in Northern Ireland. The most outrageous incident occurred in south Armagh. While elderly members of a Protestant Orange lodge were attending their monthly meeting at the village hall, two masked men crashed through the door and sprayed the room with fire from automatic rifles. Five were killed by the gunmen, who belonged to a group thought to have close connections to the IRA Proves...
...Irish revulsion over Aldershot, the Official I.R.A. raised Ulster terror to a new dimension. At week's end, an I.R.A. murder squad pumped six submachine-gun bullets into John Taylor, 34, Northern Ireland's Minister of State for Home Affairs, as he started to drive home in Armagh. Taylor, who is boss of Ulster's security forces, was the first victim of a deliberate political assassination attempt. Though he was hit in the jaw, throat, chest and hand, Taylor survived after two emergency operations. But the murder attempt, less than a month after Bloody Sunday and three...
Impoverished by these laws, Ulster's Catholics were willing to work on farms for far lower wages than the Presbyterian peasantry. At the "Battle of the Diamond" in County Armagh in 1795, Protestant peasants beat up Catholic workers and later that evening founded the Grand Orange Lodge of Ulster. Other Orange lodges soon proliferated and sent howling mobs of Protestants out to brutalize the Catholics. Eventually, the Irish Catholics started terrorist groups of their...
Northern Ireland's politics will never be the same again. The word out of Armagh jail was that Bernadette Devlin, serving a six-month term for inciting riots, had taken up the peaceful craft of crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...
...seriously injured, and an hour and a half later, M.P.s were back on their benches. Before long they resumed, discussion, appropriately, on a point of order concerning the swearing-in of the House's youngest member, Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, 23, now serving a six-month jail sentence in Armagh, Northern Ireland, for rioting and inciting to riot during last summer's disturbances in Ulster. Hansard, the official parliamentary record, took note of the bombing with a single word: "Interruption...