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...British military patrol froze in momentary disbelief. Down one street in the Belfast working-class district around Newtownards Road came the funeral procession of James McCurrie, one of six Protestants killed during a weekend of fighting between Ulster's two religious factions. Down an intersecting street came the coffin, weeping widow and keening friends of Henry McIlhone, the riot's only Catholic victim. The British soldiers quickly detoured McCurrie's cortege, but not before the two groups of mourners had caught sight of one another. There were jeers, fist shakings and muffled epithets like "Bloody Prods...
...since a pall of anger hung over Ulster last week following the fiercest battles between Catholics and Protestants in eight months. In addition to the seven dead, at least 250 people were wounded or injured, stores and pubs were fire-bombed and buses overturned to make barricades. Arriving in Belfast for a "learn-and-listen" visit, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling heard enough to convince him that the new Tory government had inherited a cankerous problem. In the Protestant area around Shankill Road, a housewife cried out to Maudling: "Shoot them down in the Falls Road [the city...
Facing another urgent problem, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling prepared to fly to Belfast to study the renewed violence between Ulster's Protestant majority and Catholic minority (see following story...
...independent to Parliament only two weeks ago. Bernadette had been sentenced to six months in prison for her part in last summer's riots, but was free pending a petition that her case be appealed to the House of Lords. When the petition was denied by a Belfast court, she was arrested on her way to a political meeting and taken to jail...
That did it. In three cities-Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry-Catholics took to the streets in protest. In the ensuing riots, four men were killed and at least 200 injured, including 100 soldiers. "If I'd been the devil himself, trying my best to cause more trouble here," said a Belfast journalist, "I couldn't have chosen a better time to jail Bernadette." The specter of more open fighting loomed once again over Northern Ireland's tense cities...