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                                                                                                                                                                             1970 AD - 2 / June

     June: In  the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, by the British Imperial Government and still under the control of the Ascendancy Official Unionist Stormont Government, a Staff Commission was now set up to assist the Stormont Government with staffing reorganization. James Chichester - Clark, the Official Unionist leader in the Stormont Parliament in the 6 Counties, in Ulster, went to Ballymena, to speak on behalf of getting their particular candidate, Henry Clark, an Absentee Land Lord, re - elected there once again, as the Rev. Ian Paisley the hard - line extremist, was also standing for the seat and his followers were there making sure that the Official Unionists were having a hard time of it. As Henry Clark was an Absentee Land Lord, his chances of retaining the seat were nearly next to nothing. At this time still there was no actual activity being carried out by any of the IRA members per se except for the P.I.R.A. / Provisionals / Provos, who were still only acting in defence of the Catholic Irish population in the Short Strand in these 6 Counties, in Ulster.  

 June 3rd: In  the 6 Counties  artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, by the British Imperial Government and still under the control of the Ascendancy Official Unionist Stormont Government, the Orangemen, were preparing for their main march, which was to be held on the 12th July, to once again celebrate the defeat of the Catholic King James II by William of Orange over 300 years before, and they were out marching on the Crumlin Road, which was very narrow at the Ardoyne in the Irish Catholic area. The Stormont Government's  R.U.C. police, naturally anticipating trouble, had informed them not to go past Flax Street, and to this end they had blocked the road there, and were then backed up by British Imperial Military forces. This did not stop them, and a few broke through the barrier, followed by the rest together with 500 of their supporters, who headed straight into the Ardoyne area, were the Irish Catholic population there could see them coming, and was awaiting their arrival, and a great riot then broke out. The Unionists this time for a change were to find out that they only came into conflict with the R.U.C. police and the British Military, while the Irish Catholics there, were able to just look on as observers.

June 18th: The British Westminster Election results were declared, and the seat of Bairnside in North Co. Antrim, which extended from the north of Belfast to the Glens of Antrim, was lost by the Official Unionist Henry Clark, and won by the Rev. Ian Paisley the hard - line religious extremist, as expected, for the first time, who had continued to conduct his campaign by catering to the basest bigotry that was possible. Brian Devlin, stood as an Independent for re - election for his own seat also in Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster, which was a rural area, taking in part of Co. Tyrone and Co. Derry, were Omagh was it's main town. Gerry Fitt, the Independent Labour candidate, won the seat in West Belfast in Co. Antrim and Robin Chichester - Clark, a Conservative Tory,  who was a brother to the Stormont Official Unionist leader, James Chichester - Clark, won the seat in South Derry. Bernadette Devlin, won a seat in Central Ulster also, and Frank Mac Manus, who was an Irish Nationalist representing the Independent Unity Party, also won a seat.

      In England, Harold Wilson and his Home Secretary, James Callaghan along with the British Labour Party were now out of government, and Edward Heath and the Tory Conservatives were now in government there, as the new British Conservative Government, and their allies were the Ascendancy Official Unionists from the 6 Counties that were previously artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, and still under their control in Ireland. They had won 8 of the 12 Westminster seats available, with the hard - line religious extremist, the Rev. Ian Paisley in as a Unionist also. The Irish Nationalists, who were successful, were Gerry Fitt, Bernadette Devlin, and Frank Mac Manus who refused to take up his seat as per the original agreed policy of the Sinn Fein Party. The new British Tory Conservative Government, were also well aware of the inroads being made by the various members of the other Nationalist groups in the British Empire, in both Scotland and Wales, towards gaining their own independence from England. In 1922, the British Imperial Government had originally divided Ireland, due to their British Imperial Military power, and set up the 6 Counties from out of the 9 in the Ulster Province, as a gerrymander for the continuation in Ireland of the Ascendancy, and by doing this they had created the ongoing turmoil in Ireland that had brought about the overall loss of many lives there and buckets of untold misery. They had also continued to allow the Ascendancy there to over rule any rights the Catholic Irish had, who were supposed to be equal British citizens, with equal rights under British Imperial rule. The new British Conservative Government under Edward Heath, with their usual typical disinterest in the affairs in Ireland, appointed a totally incompetent and uninterested Reginald Maudling in England to be their Overseerer in Ireland until 1971, and true to form he was to do absolutely nothing to alter the situation in the 6 Counties there in Ulster, and only ensured that the ongoing dreadful turmoil and the ethnic and religious discrimination were continued on.              

June 22nd: Mac Dermott, the British appointed Lord Chief Justice in the Belfast High Court, in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, refused the right of appeal to Bernadette Devlin the young Westminster M.P., who was an active Civil Rights defender, who was represented by Sir Dingle Foot, against the manufactured convictions made out against her during the original Derry riots, when the Civil Rights marchers themselves were blatantly physically attacked. Sir Dingle Foot wanted to take her appeal to the House of Lords in England. but Mac Dermott, said that he would make a further decision on that matter on the 26th June, the day the Orangemen were once again preparing to hold their provocative march.     

June 26th: Friday: Mac Dermott, Curran and Mac Veigh, the three British appointed Lord Chief Justices, in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, ruled against the appeal of Bernadette Devlin, who was then arrested on the out of date charge of incitement to riot. She was taken into custody by the Official Unionist Stormont Government's  R.U.C. police at Drumahee, two miles out of the town of Derry, to ensure there was no publicity given to the arrest. At the time, she was travelling with Eamonn Mac Cann, and she was then taken and placed in a wing of the Armagh Prison in Co. Armagh, and Eamonn Mac Cann drove immediately to the Catholic Irish Bogside area in Derry in Co. Derry, were he informed the population there of her arrest, and as would be expected immediately rioting broke out in response, which was to be the first occasion that it had occurred there in weeks.

      Despite the previous Troubles, in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, and the fact that the proposed Orange march was solely based on bigotry and ethnicity and intended to create conflict, which would not be allowed in any other responsible Country, the new Conservative Tory British Government in England decided to let the Orangemen continue on their merry way. Just by co - incidence in Belfast in Co. Antrim there the rioting, which was then still occurring there, was in the very same place as it was 3 weeks before, but it was to become even worse still. It had been brought on by another flag raising ceremony by the the Orange Lodge of West Belfast, with the direct intention of creating further increased tension, while they were passing the Irish Catholic area near the Ardoyne. Even by this time, there were still no real interest or positive changes being made by those Conservatives now in power in authority in England, to halt these further Troubles in these 6 Counties in Ulster.

June 27th: This was to be the day when the Provisional IRA / Provos, were to make their first appearance in any street action in Belfast in Co. Antrim, one of the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province and still under the control of the British Imperial Government and the Official Unionist Stormont Government. Another 6 people were to be killed, and 58 men and women were to be shot, and another 218 were injured, as 5,000 Orangemen massed at the Shankhill to march down Springfield Road to Bombay Street below the Clonard monastery, although this was a Republican area. James Chichester - Clark, the Official Unionist Stormont Prime Minister, would not take the initiative and even go as far as to change their marching route. The British Conservative Tory Government's Belfast representative, Ronald Burrough's advise was also not heeded in England, as the incompetent Reginald Maudling did nothing, and just sat on his hands, and the rioting soon began as the marchers approached the Irish Catholic area, where they were at first verbally abused by the Catholic Irish youths, as was expected, and the agenda was soon complete, which soon turned into running battles. Once again, it was to quieten down by the afternoon, after the British Imperial Military forces moved in and separated them.

      In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province,  there was another flare up of Troubles at Ballymurphy, in the north of Springfield Road again, were 1500 of the Catholic Irish population there came up against 2 British Imperial Military Battalions from the Queen's Regiment, and rioting began once more, with over 100 fires breaking out, followed by further rioting at the lower end of Springfield Road again, and then at the Ardoyne, East Belfast, York Road and The Falls area. At Crumlin Road, as the darkness moved in, the guns came out and 3 non - Catholics were killed in Palmer Street, and 5 men from the Ardoyne district were charged and imprisoned, until they were to be finally found innocent and acquitted a few weeks later. 3,500 British Military Forces were out that night. This now saw the return of the IRA as a force to be reckoned with, as at Newtownards Road near the Short Strand, where the raging mob had set fire to the Irish Catholic area, the residents called for help from the Stormont Government and the British Government authorities, but none came.  5 P.I.R.A./ Provos came out instead to try and defend the area, who then opened fire on the oncoming mobs, and the violence was then to continue on throughout the night. By the morning, there was another 5 people dead and 58 injured, with 3 British Imperial Military forces wounded, and 1,000,000 pounds worth of damage done to the area. (The Catholic Irish population there, were now to turn to the Provos as their only hope of protection, as the British Imperial Military forces did not come when requested.) In this particular area there were only 6,000 Irish Catholics living among a population of 60,000 non - Catholics, and at 10 p.m. the Catholic Church was bombarded by petrol bombs, and there was no one there to defend it. There was by now only 2 remaining members of the Old IRA in that area, in the guise of William Mac Kee and William Kelly, who were actually from over the other side of the river, and the two of them made a stand against the onslaught there, and the British Imperial Military forces would still not intervene, and throughout the 5 hours of gunfire that followed another 3 men were to die, and 108 major fires were to cause further untold damage there in Belfast in Co. Antrim. One of those who were killed, was was Henry Mac Ilhone, who had no connection with the IRA, but had tried to assist in protecting the population there who were under attack.

June 28th: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province the Official Unionist Security Committee, met at the Stormont Parliament under the British Imperial Government General Ian Freeland and the Official Unionist Prime Minister James Chichester - Clark. Instead of trying to bring about some end to the causes of the renewed Troubles at this time, the best they could come up with was a curfew, announcing that all the hotels were to close at 8 p.m. and the main roads at 9 p.m. and that the Defence Regiment under the control of the British Imperial Military forces was to be mobilised to replace the Stormont Government's R.U.C. police B Specials. There was to be mandatory sentencing of 6 months, for any person involved in rioting, with anyone seen carrying a gun to be shot, and there were 6 people dead already. Reginald Maudling, James Chichester - Clark and the British Imperial General Ian Freeland, who were now the ones with the immediate real authority in the 6 Counties in Ulster, who were also all basically responsible for all the original blunders, could not find it within themselves to come up with anything positive, to alter what was by now once again a terrible overall situation.

Spring: A Liberal Unionist organization was formed in the 6 Counties in Ulster Province that was called the New Ulster Movement, to support reform.

 

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