1970 AD - 3 / July

                                                                                                                           '"Fianna Fail Party National Executive Decision."

1970 AD July 1st: In  the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, by the British Imperial Coalition Government, and still under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government, the 1970 Criminal Justice Temporary Provisions Bill was introduced by Basil Kelly the "Official" Unionist Attorney General in the Stormont Government, where anyone who was "arrested" and found guilty was to get 6 months minimum "imprisonment" and he was also forced to admit, it would, "Lead to wrong convictions and harsh cases," as it was a "shocking peace" of legislation, which was to last only 5 months and 7 days on their books, but was to have further "terrible consequences," and Major James Chichester - Clark the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Prime Minister himself was to only last another 3 months after that.

      In  these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the "Official Anti - Treaty IRA," had also by now taken up the position of "defending" the Irish Catholic population in the Lower Falls area, and both them and the "Provisional Anti - Treaty IRA / Provos," were at this period in time still only acting in a "defensive" role to try and "protect" the Irish Catholics there.   

      Reginald Maudling the British Conservative Government's Overseerer in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, finally came over to Ireland "personally" to act on the renewed "Troubles," but was "ignorant" of any of the facts, and was "not very interested to learn" anything useful, and he soon "left" making the comment, " What a bloody awful Country" and the recently instigated Defence Regiment in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province were now "stood down," as the farmers involved in it wanted to return to their holdings, and the "roads" were once again "open" for business.                   

July 2nd: In the Irish Republic, the "charges" against Neil Blaney of  being involved in importing "guns" into Ireland were "dismissed," and Kevin Boland, who had been forced to "resign" over the issue, had the Fianna Fail Party call a meeting to discuss the possibility of getting rid of Jack Lynch as their "leader," as he considered that he was letting the Fianna Fail Party and it's followers down as Republicans, but instead Kevin Boland was "expelled" from the Fianna Fail Party, along with Desmond Foley, who had given him his support, so he decided then to also "resign" from the Fianna Fail National Executive along with his father, Gerald Boland, who had been a "long time" Republican supporter of the Fianna Fail Party.   

July 3rd - 4.30.p.m: Other British Imperial Military blunders were now to occur in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, when they "raided" a house in the Lower Falls area in Balkan Street, where they found a small cache of "arms" and a crowd gathered, and the British Imperial Royal Scots then took to the population there with "batons" and one of their British Imperial Military trucks also "backed over" one of the people in the crowd who unfortunately died that night, and as a result their British Imperial Commander ordered them "out" of the area altogether. The British Imperial Government's Military Brigade Commander at Lisburn, then sent "in" another company of British Imperial Military soldiers, who fired "gas" canisters at the crowd there at Lisburn, and by 6.30 p.m. the area represented a "war zone," as the Irish Catholic population there "barricaded" themselves in for protection. More British Imperial Military Forces were then sent in to the area, and matters just got "worse and worse" until 7.15 p.m., when the British Military Brigade Commander was also forced to "pull out " all of his forces also. (The members of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" then constructed "stronger" barricades to keep the British Imperial Military Forces out of the area altogether.) There was now a total force of 3,000 British Imperial Government Forces in The Falls area alone, including the Devon and the Dorset King's Own Borderers, the Green Howards, the Paratroopers, the Queens Own Regiment and the Royal Scottish Fusiliers and at 8.20 p.m. the British Military Forces moved in once again on the "barricades," with the "Official Anti - Treaty IRA" willing to "protect" the Irish Catholic population there, as the British Military Forces began "firing" on them at 8.30 p.m. expending 1,454 rounds of ammunition, including those from their "machine guns," along with 1600 "gas" canisters. They then placed a "curfew" on the area, and patrolled it in armoured cars, and "wrecked" many of the "homes" while in there carrying out internal searches, and together with other "unnecessary impositions" and increased violent methods, which only further increased the "resentment " that the Irish Catholic population there were now feeling towards the British Imperial Military Forces who were also now seen "once again" as "forces of occupation" only. Altogether they arrested 337 men, while another 5 members of the population there were "killed," there including 3 Irish Catholics and a foreigner, and 3 soldiers were wounded and the "curfew" was then kept on until the morning of the 5th of July.

      The "curfew" in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, had been introduced "only" on the Falls Road, which was the Irish Catholic area, but not at the Shankhill, which was the non - Catholic Unionist area, and the British Imperial Military Forces then continued on with their previous British Conservative Government Public Relations exercise, by "ransacking" the Irish Catholic Falls Road area and they were to keep up this assault for 2 days without any interference from anyone in authority in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, which not only further "reduced the value" of the British Imperial Government Military shares, but also "increased" the overall support for the "Anti - Treaty IRA," as even now "more then ever" the Irish Catholic population there had no one at all to "defend" them but the "Anti - Treaty IRA."

      Two positive acts now occurred when a Police Act was introduced into these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, where the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist "B" Special police were now to be "replaced" by the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C. Reserve, which were supposed to be "unarmed" and Edward Heath the British Conservative Prime Minister and the British Conservative Government were now forced to "admit" that the Unionists were wrong in their assertion that all the "demonstrators" were "Anti - Treaty IRA" supporters, and another period of calm now prevailed

July 12th: In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the Orange Order was out on "parade" again with 100,000 marching, so another 7,000 British Imperial Military Forces were brought into Ireland, with 5,000 from the Defence Regiment and the Black Watch from Germany, who were moving around the area in "armoured cars" and the Irish Catholic residents were placed on a "curfew," and "locked away," so that the "sectarian ethnic" provocative march could be allowed to continue on throughout the area without any chance this time of any "confrontation." There were to be "19 " separate Orange marches carried out in various different areas, and the Orange Order was somewhat dismayed when the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Prime Minister, Major James Chichester - Clark did not show up at Maghera. 

July 31st: 1.a.m. In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government's R.U.C. police and the British Imperial Military Forces were called out to New Lodge on the Antrim Road, where they were "ambushed" by members of the "Provisional Anti - Treaty IRA / Provos" who were now more then ever "totally convinced" that there would be no end to the "restrictions" being placed on the Irish Catholic population in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, or any chance of the introduction of any further real "Civil Rights" reform, as they had by now been made well aware of the "permanent oppression" that was from now going on to be "imposed" by the British Imperial Military Forces. During the previous 3 weeks of the oppressive "conflict," that had occurred, they had now made a conscious "decision" that instead of "defending" the Irish Catholic population there, that they would now go on the "offensive themselves" instead, against the newly introduced  Conservative "oppression" of the British Military Forces, who had by now actually presented itself to the Irish Catholic population there, as an "occupying foreign army." The British King's Own Scottish Borderers from the Girwood Park barracks across the road also "joined" in and added to the turmoil, and while "petrol bombs" were being thrown, the Scottish Borderers began also firing "gas" canisters, and they then fired 3 rounds of live ammunition "killing" Daniel O Hagan a 19 year old electrician, an innocent civilian, who was out walking nearby along the road, who was to be the "first" civilian "blatantly" killed by the British Imperial Military Forces on purpose since 1921.

     In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, "explosions" resumed, and there was to be violent trouble in Belfast in Co. Antrim, for the next 5 days and nights, with dozens of the British Imperial Military Forces being badly injured and Brian Faulkner, the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government's second in command, who was another hard - liner, issued his own personal statement, that was very pertinent that he, not their Prime Minister Major James Chichester - Clark, on behalf of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government was going to "introduce" an even "tougher policy" on those who went against their authority. There were further "riots" the next weekend in Divis Street, where the British Imperial Military Forces began also using the Mercedes "water cannon," and 6" long x 1 1/2 " rubber bullets, as the British Royal Regiment of Fusiliers "besieged" the population there, and were now also using Saracens and Ferret Rolls Royce armoured cars against the population in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province.

     In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, on the Monday, the body of Daniel O Hagan was interred, and his funeral cortege was to be followed by over 3,000 mourners, most of whom were now "new recruits" to the Irish Republican cause, as this was not now just over a "home" to live in, but the individual "Civil Rights" of all of those Irish Catholics who were still living in their own Country in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, but as civilians they had no real "weapons" of their own to "defend" themselves, and just like in the hundreds of years before, they as individuals could not take on the British Imperial Military "might" who had the most "modern" types of "weapons" available, together with their British Imperial Military trained forces, but despite this they still had their own "free will," to utilise to continue to "survive." They still had their "belief " in their normal "Human Civil Rights," as individual human beings, despite the ongoing "ethnic and religious" repression of the Ascendancy that was still being "allowed to occur" by those in "authority," who were always to be "backed up" by British Imperial Military "might."

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