Word: coalisland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital. I.R.A. guerrillas blasted a Belfast printing factory with a gelignite bomb and planted fire bombs in two shops and a customs office, in incidents similar to one the week before that killed four people, including a 17-month-old boy when a furniture store was blown up. At Coalisland, a gloomy Catholic town 40 miles west of Belfast, members of the Protestant-dominated Ulster Defense Regiment mistook a 16-year-old boy, Martin McShane, for an I.R.A. gunman and shot him to death. In response, several hundred Coalisland youths rioted; four government vehicles were burned or wrecked...
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