RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
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 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.