Albert Kavanagh 18 years, Cavendish
Street, Falls Road, west Belfast, an IRA activist, he was shot dead by
members of the RUC after he was captured during a commercial bomb
attack on 4 March 1972. The ...
William McKavanagh 21 years, Markets, south Belfast
Billy McKavanagh was shot in the back as he ran away when confronted by soldiers in the Markets area of Belfast in the early hours of August 11, 1971, ...
Mairead Farrell was 31 when she was assassinated by the SAS in
Gibraltar Sunday March 6th 1988. Eyewitnesses described how she, Sean
Savage and Dan McCann, members of an unarmed IRA unit, were ...
Ambrose Hardy 26 years, New Lodge
Road, north Belfast, an IRA activist, he was shot dead by British
soldiers along with Tony Campbell (19), Brendan Maguire (33) and James
Loughran (35) on the New ...
Anthony Hughes 36 years, Caledon,
County Armagh, he was shot dead by undercover British soldiers at RUC
Loughgall Barracks, County Armagh, on 8 May 1987. Mr Hughes was driving
towards the barracks ...
Antoine MacGiolla Bhrighde, 27 years, IRA activist, from County Derry, shot dead by undercover British soldiers at Kesh, County Fermanagh, on 2 December 1984.
Brendan O’Callaghan 21 years, Lenadoon, west Belfast,
an IRA activist, he was shot dead by British soldiers
not far from his home on the Stewartstown Road on 24
April 1977. He was part of an IRA ...
Brian Campbell
19 years, Coalisland, County Tyrone, an IRA activist, he was shot dead
along with Colm McGirr (23) by undercover British soldiers on 4
December 1983. The shooting occurred just ...
Brian Mullin 26 years, Carrickmore area, Co Tyrone, an
IRA activist, he was shot dead by undercover British
soldiers at Drumnakilly, County Tyrone, on 30 August
1988. Two brothers, Gerard Harte ...
Brian Smyth 32 years, Ardoyne, north Belfast, an IRA
activist, he was shot dead by British soldiers in
Ardoyne on 17 April 1973. The soldiers were in an
observation post and claimed Mr Smyth and other ...
Charles Breslin 20 years, Strabane,
Co. Tyrone, an IRA activist, he was shot dead along with Michael Devine
(22) and his brother David Devine (17) by undercover British soldiers,
on 23 February ...
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