Word: lenadoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...core of the problem for the average citizen of having to live in a war zone: "We don't really have much of a life. I can go to the bar for a drink every once in a while, and there's bingo on Thursday. I went to Lenadoon (Catholic area near Andersonstown) the other day to see a friend but I got caught in a gun battle. Life just gets very monotonous; there's nothing to do. In fact, I just cleaned the sink for the sixth time today, I got so fidgety...
PEACE, proclaimed the banner at the head of the procession. The marchers were 3,000 war-weary Catholics from the Lenadoon Avenue district of West Belfast. After the two-week-old cease-fire broke down, Lenadoon Avenue became a no man's land between British troops and I.R.A. guerrillas. The marchers, blankets and belongings in hand, had finally decided to evacuate their homes and bed down in nearby public schools until the fighting eased. Long before they had a chance to consider returning home, all talk of peace was shattered by the worst bombing attack in Ulster...
Three nights after Whitelaw's appearance in Parliament, the worst fighting of the guerrilla war broke out. I.R.A. terrorists stepped up their sniping attack on the army outpost in Belfast's Lenadoon Avenue by rolling a bulldozer laden with a 50-lb. gelignite bomb toward the sandbagged building. Though I.R.A. men fired on the rolling bomb, only a portion of the gel ignite exploded. The army responded by going on the offensive against I.R.A. strongholds, dispatching 700 troops to the Lenadoon Avenue area alone. Soon firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops...
...spokesman said the army had moved into the Lenadoon area only after four days and nights of IRA attacks on security forces...
...community leaders persuaded the IRA not to use Lenadoon for attacks British troops would be progressively withdrawn, the spokesman said. The IRA said earlier it would not agree to a ceasefire...