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Charles Armstrong (Northern Ireland)
Charles Armstrong was a 55 year old labourer from Crossmaglen who disappeared on 16 August 1981. It is suspected that he was abducted and killed by the Provisional IRA, a victim of enforced disappearance. No reason, in this case, has ever been publicly given. Armstrong and his wife Kathleen had five children. Armstrong's body was retrieved in July 2010, in a bog near Aughrim More and his funeral took place on 18 September 2010. Disappearance On the day Armstrong disappeared, his wife walked with their daughters to Mass, where they had planned to meet him after he drove a friend to it. He did not appear and it was only when they got home that they discovered that he had not met their friend. Initially, it was thought that he had had an accident, so his family and friends searched the area, but there was no sign of him. The next day, a friend phoned the family to tell them that his car had been found outside a cinema in Dundalk. His name did not appear on a list of nine people whos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossmaglen
Crossmaglen (, ) is a village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,610 in the 2011 Census and is the largest village in South Armagh. The village centre is the site of a large Police Service of Northern Ireland base and formerly of an observation tower (known locally as the "look-out post"). The square's name commemorates Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, a local man who became Primate of All Ireland (head of the Catholic Church in Ireland), and who died in 1990. However, the Cardinal originated from Crossmaglen's close neighbour, Cullyhanna. Crossmaglen has its own GAA team, Crossmaglen Rangers GAC. Travelling by road, Crossmaglen is to the north of Dublin, to the west of Newry, and to the south of Belfast. History On 13 January 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) shot dead an Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) constable in Crossmaglen. He was the first member of the USC to be killed whilst on dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Breen
Suzanne Breen (born 1967) is an Irish journalist. Career Suzanne Breen, a native of Ulster, has been a journalist for several Irish newspapers including ''The Irish Times'' and ''The Belfast Telegraph''. She has also contributed to several Irish magazines such as ''Fortnight'' and ''Magill''. She was the Northern Ireland editor for the ''Sunday Tribune''.Police 'demand Real IRA sources' BBC News, 3 May 2009; retrieved 12 May 2009 She has also written for '''' on Northern Irish issues.Suzanne Bree [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internal Security Unit
The Internal Security Unit (ISU) was the counter-intelligence and interrogation unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). This unit was often referred to as the Nutting Squad. The unit is thought to have had jurisdiction over both Northern and Southern Commands of the IRA, (encompassing the whole of Ireland), and to have been directly attached to IRA General Headquarters (GHQ). Duties The group was believed to have had a number of briefs: * Security and character vetting of new recruits to the IRA, * Collecting and collating material on failed and compromised IRA operations, * Collecting and collating material on suspect or compromised individuals (informers), * Interrogation and debriefing of suspects and compromised individuals, * Carrying out killings and lesser punishments of those judged guilty by IRA courts martial. The ISU was believed to have unlimited access to the members, apparatus and resources of the IRA in carrying out its duties. Its remit could not be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Gareth O'Connor
Gareth Paul O'Connor (1978/1979 – c. May 2003) was a member of the Real IRA who was murdered in 2003. Disappearance O'Connor disappeared after driving through Newtownhamilton in 2003, en route to Dundalk Garda station, where he regularly reported as part of bail conditions imposed after he was charged in the Republic of Ireland with membership of the Real IRA. In May 2003, Monsignor Denis Faul stated that he believed an armed group was involved in O'Connor's disappearance: Discovery of body On 11 June 2005, O'Connor's body was discovered in his car in Newry Canal, County Down. His father, Mark, believes that the Provisional IRA were responsible for the murder, as they had threatened father and son. Mark O'Connor said: "I gave those names f the killersto Gerry Kelly inn Féin assembly member But nothing has been done. Gerry Adams ignores us and ignores all the families of the Disappeared." A Sinn Féin spokesperson said: See also *Forced disappearance * Disap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Nairac
Captain Robert Laurence Nairac (31 August 1948 – 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer. Several men have been imprisoned for his death. His body has never been found. Early life Nairac was born in Mauritius, then a British Crown colony, to an English mother and a father of French Mauritian origin. His mother, Barbara (née Dykes) was Anglican and his father, Maurice, a Catholic who worked as an eye surgeon. Nairac was the youngest of four children; he had two sisters and a brother. His brother David died of myocarditis in 1962, aged 24. He attended preparatory school at Gilling Castle, a feeder school for Ampleforth College, a Catholic public school, which he attended a year later. Whilst at Ampleforth he acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disappearance Of Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson (1952 – 1 August 1973) was a man from Northern Ireland who was abducted and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The IRA never gave any explanation for his abduction and murder. His body was not found for 37 years, and he was listed as one of the Disappeared by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. Disappearance Wilson, a native of West Belfast, with five siblings, was described as "a vulnerable man with learning difficulties". He was abducted by the IRA in the summer of 1973, somewhere in the St. James area of Belfast, and killed. Only in 2009 was he added to the list of Northern Ireland's 'Disappeared'. His body was located at the beach in Waterfoot, County Antrim on 2 November 2010, the day after excavations began following the receipt of "reliable and high quality" information. His family had often walked on the beach, unaware that he was buried there. Wilson was the ninth of the known "Disappeared" to be located since 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Jean McConville
Jean McConville (''née'' Murray; 7 May 1934 – December 1972) was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.McKittrick, David (2001), ''Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles''. Random House. p. 301 In 1999, the IRA acknowledged that it had killed McConville and eight others of the "Disappeared". It claimed she had been passing information about republicans to the British Army in exchange for money and that a transmitter had been found in her flat. A report by the Police Ombudsman found no evidence for this or other rumours. Before the Troubles, the IRA had a policy of killing informers within its own ranks. From the start of the conflict the term informer was also used for civilians who were s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columba McVeigh
Columba McVeigh (1956 – 1 November 1975) was a youth from Northern Ireland who was abducted and most likely murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was listed as one of the "Disappeared" by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. Disappearance A nineteen-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, McVeigh disappeared in November 1975. The IRA say he had confessed to being a British Army intelligence agent who had received orders to infiltrate the IRA's ranks,Rosie Cowan"Adams 'at heart' of IRA's most shameful killing campaign" ''The Guardian'', 30 September 2002. but have never indicated what specific act prompted McVeigh's murder. Unsuccessful searches were carried out for the location of his body in 2003, 2011 and 2012. In September 2018 forensic archaeologists started searching Braggan Bog, near Emyvale. That search ended without success in September 2019, having paused between November 2018 and June 2019. Senior investigator Joe Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Evans
Gerard Evans (1955–1979) was one of the "Disappeared" of the Troubles. Having gone missing in March 1979, his body was recovered 31 years later in October 2010. Early life Gerard Evans, known as "Gerry", was a 24-year-old painter and decorator from Crossmaglen, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. Disappearance Evans was kidnapped by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in March 1979 whilst hitch-hiking in the Castleblaney neighbourhood in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. After a lengthy questioning involving a party of twelve local PIRA members on the accusation of being an intelligence agent for the British Government in the Armagh/Monaghan district, Evans was taken at night into the County Louth landscape, where, after pleading for mercy from his kidnappers, and being permitted to make a last prayer, he was shot in the back of the head. His body was afterwards illicitly buried in an unmarked grave in a peat bog at Carrickrobbin, near Hackballcross in County Louth, fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Murphy (Irish Republican)
Thomas Murphy ( ga, Tomás Mac Murchaidh: born 26 August 1949), also known as Slab, is an Irish republican, believed to be a former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. His farm straddles County Armagh and County Louth on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In December 2015, Murphy was found guilty on nine counts of tax evasion following a lengthy investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau of the Republic of Ireland. In February 2016, Murphy was jailed and sentenced to 18 months in prison. One of three brothers, Murphy is a lifelong bachelor who lived on the Louth side of his farm before his imprisonment. IRA involvement Murphy was allegedly involved with the South Armagh Brigade of the IRA before being elected chief of staff by the IRA Army Council. Toby Harnden (ex-correspondent for the '' Daily Telegraph'') named him as planning the Warrenpoint ambush of 1979, in which 18 British soldiers were killed, and he was also al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disappeared (Northern Ireland)
The Disappeared are people believed to have been abducted, murdered and secretly buried in Northern Ireland, the large majority of which occurred during the Troubles. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) is in charge of locating the remaining bodies, and was led by forensic archaeologist John McIlwaine. Background Of the sixteen people investigated by the ICLVR, all were Irish Catholics (Jean McConville was a convert), all except Jean McConville were male, and all are believed to have been abducted and killed by Irish Republicans. The Provisional IRA admitted to being involved in the forced disappearance of nine of the sixteen – Eamon Molloy, Seamus Wright, Kevin McKee, Jean McConville, Columba McVeigh, Brendan Megraw, John McClory, Brian McKinney, and Danny McIlhone. British Army officer Robert Nairac, who disappeared from South Armagh, was a Mauritius-born Roman Catholic. The organisation said they could only accurately locate the body of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
