1970 AD - 3 / July
July 1st: 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 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. 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 James Chichester - Clark the Official Unionist Prime
Minister himself was to only last another 3
months after that.
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, the Official IRA, had also by now taken up the position of defending the Catholic Irish population in the Lower Falls area, and both them and the Provisional IRA / Provos, were at this period in time still only acting in a defensive role for the protection of the Irish Catholics there.
Reginald
Maudling
the British Conservative Government's Overseerer in the
6
Counties
artificially partitioned from the
9 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."
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. Instead he himself 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 the
6 Counties artificially
partitioned from the 9 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. 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 Catholic Irish
population there barricaded
themselves in for protection. More British
Imperial Military soldiers 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 soldiers
also. (The members of the
IRA, then constructed stronger barricades to keep the British
Imperial Military 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. At 8.20
p.m. the British Military forces moved in once again
on the barricades, with the Official IRA willing
to protect the Catholic Irish 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 their during their
internal searches, and all of these unnecessary impositions and increased violent
methods, only further increased the resentment that the Catholic
Irish population there
were now feeling towards the British Imperial Military forces who were now seen as forces of occupation only.
Altogether they arrested 337 men, while
another
5 members of the population there were
killed,
including 3 Irish Catholics and a foreigner, and
3 soldiers were wounded. The curfew was then kept on
until the morning of the 5th of July.
The curfew in the
6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the
9 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. They were to keep
this assault up for 2 days without any interference
from anyone in authority in the 6 Counties in
Ulster,
which not only further
reduced the value of the British Imperial Government Military shares, but also increased the overall support for the IRA, as even
now
more then ever the Catholic Irish
population there had no one at all to defend them but
the IRA.
Two positive acts now occurred when a Police
Act was introduced into these 6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the
9 in the
Ulster Province, where the B Special Constabulary
were now to be replaced by the R.U.C. Reserve, which
were supposed to be unarmed.
Edward Heath the British 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 IRA supporters, and another period of calm now prevailed
July 12th: In the 6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the
9 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 in armoured
cars. The Catholic Irish residents were placed on a
curfew, and locked away, so that the sectarian ethnic provocative march could be allowed to
continue 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 Official Unionist leader,
James Chichester -
Clark did not show up at Maghera. (The stupidity of
it all.)
July 31st: 1.a.m. In the 6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the
9 in the
Ulster Province,
the
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 IRA / Provos. The IRA were now more then
ever totally convinced that there
would be no end to the restrictions being placed on the Irish Catholic population
in the 6 Counties in Ulster, 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 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
instead, against the 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, who was an innocent
civilian, who was out walking nearby along the road, who was to be the
first civilian blatantly killed on purpose since 1921.
In
the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 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. Brian Faulkner, the Official Unionist Stormont Government's second in
command, who was another Ascendancy hard - liner, issued
his own personal statement, that was very pertinent. That he, not their leader
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.
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 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 the 6 Counties in Ulster. 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 with their most modern types of weapons, together with their British Imperial Military trained soldiers, but they still had their own free will, to somehow continue to survive. They still had their belief in their normal Human 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 here, who were always backed up by British Imperial Military might.