Injustice of the Legal Act has been compounded by the knowledge that nine historians will participate in this project, apparently oblivious to the trauma of families
There’s too much death: Prospect of an ‘official’ British history of the Troubles is hurtful to families like mine
Swathes of historians have voiced misgivings about the project, in particular, the morality of historians having access to files denied to victims’ families.‘We’re a gay bar, not a political venue’: London’s best-known gay pub in row over Israel Eurovision boycottI wrote in this paper On November 14th, 1973, a British army sangar based in the Short Strand came under fire from the Provisional IRA, with the army claiming they did not return fire. My great-uncle John was killed crossing Moira Street in circumstances that my family have never fully understood. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Royal Victoria Hospital from a gunshot wound to the lung.By January 1974, two of John’s brothers were dead: Geordie and Malachy . Their hearts had given out.
In 1977, two IRA members were convicted of John’s murder during the gun battle four years earlier, but an older relative believes John may have been killed deliberately, something I’ve pressed about in the past year. There are peculiarities to the case, including the fact that the IRA ordered and kept written confessions in a bar for years after his death. There are other whispers and rumours. The family was utterly broken by John’s murder.
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