1970 AD - 1 January - May

                                                                                                                                  "Social Democratic Labour Party / S.D.L. Party,"                                                                                                              

1970 AD  In the Republic of Ireland, the population in Co. Leitrim in the north of the Connacht Province, had fallen by 50 %, and in Co. Roscommon by 37% since 1927.

    The "ban" on Catholics attending Trinity College in Dublin was finally lifted, and it was no longer a "bastion" of the Ascendancy in Ireland.

1970 In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, a Police Act was brought in with a new "Official" Unionist R.U.C police structure, where the Ascendancy Stormont Government's "B"Special police were to be represented by an "Official" Unionist R.U.C Reserve, and the first policeman to be "killed " there now was to be by Unionist forces.

     The Crowther Commission held hearings in Belfast in Co. Antrim on the British Constitution, but there was "no review" of the Special Powers Act and "sabotage" was to re - commence.

January 1st: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, the Ulster Defence Regiment / U.D.F. that was also suggested, was being "formed," that was originally supposed to be composed of 20% Irish Catholics, but despite this it was actually to be  composed of Unionist "ex - members" from the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist "B" Specials, and "their" County commanders also became their Regiments' Battalion commanders and to all those looking on it appeared that it was now only really getting a "name" change," with the main alteration only being that it now began operations supposedly under British Government "control." Andrew Tyrie the U.D.A. / Ulster Defence Regiment commander in the future would encourage his men to join the U.D.R,, and early on the U.D.A. under the Ulster Freedom Fighters / U.F.F. would "engage" the British Military Forces, but later on they were to concentrate on "killing" the Irish Republicans and the Irish Catholics' with the result that there would be far more Irish Catholics then non - Catholics "killed" over time here. 

      At this time, John Hume, from Derry in Co. Derry in the north of the Ulster Province, who was to become a "major player" in trying to bring about "peaceful " reform, was a school teacher who was to become a founder member of the political "Social Democratic Labour Party / S.D.L. Party," while Bernadette Devlin, the young student M.P. was now also an M. P. in the Westminster Parliament pushing for further "Civil Rights" and "democratic" reform in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government. She was now "arrested" by the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government's RUC police, and as a result "riots" broke out again in Belfast in Co. Antrim, and another 6 people were to be "killed," and the members of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" were now convinced that the British Military Forces were now operating on a "Shoot to Kill" policy. Bernadette Devlin and Gerry Fitt who were both M.P.s in the Westminster Parliament, together with several English M.P.s had not only tried to change the Ulster Defence Regiment's Constitution, but also their name.  

January 11th: The "split"that had occurred in the "Anti - Treaty IRA" ranks also over the "recognition" of the 3 Parliaments in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster, had by now produced "2 separate individual parties" with one of these being the "Official Anti - Treaty IRA" that had Marxist - Socialist leanings under their leader, Cathal Goulding, who were for "no further" physical action on their part for the return of these 6 Counties in the Ulster Province to the whole of Ireland, while the second party the "Provisional Anti - Treaty IRA / P.I.R.A./ Provos" on the other hand, were to take over the role as the actual "defenders" of the Irish Catholic population in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, who were under the leadership of Gerry Adams, Daithi O Connell and Sean Mac Stiofain / John Stephenson, who were at this time promoting the objects of the "Provisional Anti - Treaty IRA" organization in Ulster Province, in anticipation of receiving "arms and support" from America to do so. Their intention was to make these 6 Counties in Ulster Province "ungovernable," by attacking "commercial and military targets," hoping the Ascendancy "Official " Unionist Government in Stormont would "collapse," and the British Government would then find it easier to finally "pull out" of Ireland altogether, and the result of all of this would be the re - unification of the 32 Counties of the whole of Ireland. Noraid, had also been set up in New York in America, to support the "Anti - Treaty P.I.R.A. / Provos" to give further assistance to the Irish Catholic families in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province who through no fault of their own were constantly effected by the never ending "siege mentality" there that continually allowed those who had their own "personal agendas, to continue on with the "ethnic and sectarian riots."

      The proposed Defence Force / U.D.F. that had by now been set up in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, who were still under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, was to eventually be composed of a 6,000 Paramilitary Unionist Force who were also involved with the non - Catholic Freedom Fighters / U.F.F there, who were "attacking and killing" the Irish Catholic civilians there, while also "bombing" the Irish Catholic "schools and institutions" there. The violent treatment, they were now handing out to the Irish Catholic population there, generally was based solely on "religious bigotry and Irish ethnicity," pushed along by "others" who had their "own personal agendas," who always took the "opportunity" to make full use of this entrenched "siege mentality" that still existed there in the protagonists "minds." Even though the results of all of this continual "ethnic and sectarian" conflict was to be catastrophic, it was to "unsettle and renew" not only the Republican Nationalist "spirit" in the Irish population there in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, but also in the "whole" of the Republic of Ireland population in the other 26 Counties and "bombing" campaigns were begun, and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government there offered 1000 pounds reward for any information on who the actual "bombers" were.    

February 25th: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, the Central Housing Authority was set up, which was now "supposed" to actually represent "all" of the population living there in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, regardless of their ethnicity or religious affiliations. 

    The Rev. Ian Paisley, and William Beattie his new right hand man, who were anti - Catholic hard - liners, who had their own individual agendas, were "elected" to the Stormont Parliament at Belfast because of their "extremist" views and they were installed in the Stormont Parliament on the nominations of another of their two hard - line "Official Unionist" leaders in Desmond Boal and Sir William Craig.           

March: In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, the reward offered for any information on who carried out nthe previous "bombings" was now increased to 5,000 pounds.

April 1st:  In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, their RUC "B" Special police were "disbanded" and the Ulster Defence Regiment / U.D.F was now to be instituted as their replacement, which had been based on the premise of "assisting" the British Military Forces there and although Sir William Craig was against it, they began with 7 Battalions, with one being placed in each of these 6 Counties there, and the other additional one in Belfast in Co. Antrim.  At Ballymurphy, which had the reputation of being the "worst" Housing Estate in the British Isles, there was an Irish Catholic "majority" of tenants, and a hand to hand clash occurred with the "youths" there who were mostly unemployed, and were seeking excitement, which made it hard for the "Anti - Treaty P.I.R.A. / Provisional IRA / Provos" as well as the British Military Forces to keep control over them. The struggle was to now finally be between the Irish Catholics there and the British Military Forces, after it was to be brought on by the "confrontations" with these youths and also those who were among the Orangemen. The Orangemen were supposed to be holding a "march" to Bangor, which is situated 10 miles east of Belfast in Co. Antrim on the Belfast Loch, but instead, they had decided to continue to march "backwards and forwards" on the Springfield Road instead , which was an area that "separated" the Irish Catholic tenants from the non - Catholic tenants at New Barnsley. They knew full well that this type of "taunting" could only lead on to further "conflict" there between these 2 "opposing" groups and the British Government's Military commander sent off a contingent of 70 of his soldiers from the British Scots Guards into Ballymurphy, with the end result that "rioting" then broke out there, as the individual conflicts between them occurred. The "Anti - Treaty P.I.R.A. / Provo" members who were now intending to "combine" with the various Defence Committees in these areas, to protect the Irish Catholics in Belfast in Co. Antrim, and in Derry in Co. Derry, were "not yet ready" to take on the much better organized British Military Forces, and they also did not want them coming into the Irish Catholic areas "upsetting" their training schedule and as the youths were unstable there the "Anti - Treaty P.I.R.A. / Provos" were being "blamed" for the trouble that these "youths" were causing.           

     In the Irish Republic,  James Kelly had been working in with John Kelly in Belfast in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, to assist the Irish Catholic population there, to try and secure "arms" for their "defence" should they come under any further "ethnic or religious" attacks, and Jack Lynch the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic was informed again of their plans, which forced him to act, and the deal was "terminated," and he demanded a "resignation" from the 2 Irish Cabinet members he believed were involved, namely, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, who both "refused" to resign and Jack Lynch's speech on T.V. was to be then blamed for the "riots"that followed in Belfast in Co. Antrim.

April 2nd:  In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official "Unionist Government, during this evening a full British Military Battalion together with armoured cars covered in barb wire, were sent to the Irish Catholic area of Ballymurphy fitted with riot shields, S.L.R. rifles, batons, a hand gun each and gas grenades and this now meant that they were showing themselves instead to the Irish Catholic population there as an "army of occupation." When they arrived there they were confronted by the Irish Catholics living there, and after making a few "baton charges" they turned to using "gas," and this unnecessary action only further served to once again "unite" the population there further, who were now under "total siege," and that particular area seemed to then quieten down, until the coming July.

      Because Terence O Neill, the previous Prime Minister of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government, was now created an English Peer, and had become a member of the British House of Lords, an "election" had to be called for his previous Bannside seat in Co. Antrim, one of the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, for the Westminster Parliament and it was then to be won by the Rev. Ian Paisley, the extremist "ethnic and religious" hard - liner, which only encouraged further his "followers" among the extreme hard - line Unionists. The "moderates" among the Unionists, seeing which way the wind was now blowing "broke away," and a meeting was conducted in East Belfast in Co. Antrim to form a new "political non - denominational, non - sectarian Party," to be known as the "Alliance Party" made up of the Unionist middle class, who not only supported the "Civil Rights Association" reforms, but who also still supported the "ártificial partition" of these 6 Counties in Ulster Province. Their aim was to contest 45 out of the 52 seats in the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist dominated Stormont Parliament, but unbeknown to them at this time there were to be "no further elections" for the Stormont Parliament in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province in the foreseeable future, and in the meantime Sir Ian Freeland, who was the British Government's Military Commander - in - Chief in these 6 Counties issued a warning, that anyone caught making, carrying, or throwing, "petrol bombs" in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province was liable to be "shot."  

May 1st: Jack Lynch the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, informed his Fianna Fail Cabinet about the previous "arms" crisis, where it had been intended by some parties there to "import " arms for the use of the "defence" of the Irish Catholic population in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, but he did not "reveal" who he believed was personally involved in the scheme.

May 5th: In the Irish Republic, Liam Cosgrave, who was the leader of the Fine Gael Party who were the "Opposition," also became aware of the arms crisis situation and met with Jack Lynch over the matter, who once again demanded the "resignation" of Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey from his Cabinet, but they also once again "refused" to resign, so he "terminated" both of their appointments, which was carried out by Eamonn de Valera who was still the Irish President, and Kevin Boland was also forced to "resign," but Charles Haughey continued to defend his innocence, and even put out a "Loyalty Oath" to Jack Lynch.   

May:  In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, Sir Ian Freeland, the British General who was Commander - in - Chief for the British Government in these 6 Counties issued another warning, that anyone involved in even "watching" a riot, or not dispersing immediately, would be subject to arrest.

May 28th: In the Irish Republic, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, the two former Irish Republic Fianna Fail Cabinet Ministers, were "arrested" on a charge of Conspiracy to import arms into Ireland.

      Harold Wilson, the British Labour Prime Minister, was to soon "dismiss" the British Parliament at Westminster and hold a British General Election, which was to "change" the whole scenario once again, for the "worse" in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province as a Conservative Tory Government would be once again in control in Britain under Edward Heath who would also need the Conservative Ascendancy votes in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, and again "pander" to their individual Ascendancy "agendas" leading onto another 4 years of further "extreme violence, death and general upheaval in these 6 Counties.

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