1971 AD - 2 March - July
March 10th:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province, the bodies of
John Mac Caig,
Joseph Mac Caig and
Dougall Mac Caughy who were
3 British
Imperial Military soldiers from
the Royal Highlands Fusiliers
were discovered near Belfast Airport
in the north -
east of Co. Antrim in the
Ulster Province. They
had been out to a bar where they had run into members of the Provisional I.R.A. - Provos and were
basically only young Scottish
youths and everyone in Ireland was shocked by their deaths. The
British Conservative
Government then put out an order recalling
all of their British Imperial soldiers under 18 years of age.
William Hull
who was from the Belfast Shipyards in Co. Antrim led a march of his workers to the
Stormont Parliament expressing the non - Catholic anger over the killings of such
young people demanding "Internment without Trial" for any I.R.A. suspects.
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province, Major
James Dawson
Chichester - Clark the "Official"
Unionist Stormont Prime Minister was in big trouble once again, but instead of doing something positive, all he did was to appeal to the the British Conservative Government to bring in,
"Internment
without Trial." They refused his proposition and informed him that they were of
the opinion that the British Imperial Military
forces would return the
6 Counties, still under their control to an
acceptable normality.
March 17th: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, James Chichester - Clark the "Official" Unionist Stormont Prime Minister went over to England once again to try and get increased military assistance from the British Conservative Government, so they gave him another 1,000 British soldiers and more armoured cars. Personally by now he had run his race and he informed Edward Heath the British Conservative Prime Minister, that he could no longer carry on as the Prime Minister in the 6 Counties in Ulster.
March 18th:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from
the 9 in the Ulster Province,
Lord Carrington and
Sir
Geoffrey Baker
the British Imperial Military
Chief of the General Staff, arrived in Belfast in Co.
Antrim from England
and tried to get
James Chichester - Clark to
stay on
as the Prime Minister for them in the 6 Counties in
Ulster that were still under their control,
and the British Military Defence Secretary also saw him later on again to reconsider his position, but he was
adamant.
March 22nd:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province,
Major James Dawson
Chichester - Clark
resigned his position, and received a
Peerage from the British Conservative Government when he was created Lord
Myola, as the 5th Prime
Minister of the
6 Counties in Ulster
during the 50 years of total Ascendancy
"Official"
Unionist control there. They all had been
from the English Establishment
/ Old Boys including
James Craig
/ Lord
Craigavon, Andrews, Brooke /
Lord Brookeborough,
Terence O Neill
/ Lord O Neill and
James Chichester - Clark / Lord Myola, attending either Eton or
Oxford there.
March 23rd:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province,
Arthur "Brian" Faulkner,
a Presbyterian from
Co. Down one of these
6 Counties in Ulster
who had
previously been James
Chichester - Clark's second
in command,
became the last Prime Minister of the
6 Counties
in Ulster with
26 votes when he defeated the other Unionist hard - liner,
William Craig who received only
4
votes, to become the new
"Official" Unionist Party leader as his
particular disposition had suited the other hard - line Unionists better. Later on he
would also be created
Baron
Faulkner by the British
Conservative Government, and his opponent
William Craig
stated at this time,
that he would only last a year, a prediction that would surely come to pass.
May end:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province, some of the members of the
Provisional IRA / Provos bombed a bar in the
Shankhill Road without warning,
and
Brian Faulkner the new
"Official" Unionist Prime
Minister in these 6 Counties in
Ulster demanded that the
British Imperial Military soldiers from now on were to fire on all suspicious persons.
June 22nd:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province,
proposals
were now put forward for further
reform and
Brian Faulkner the "Official" Unionist Stormont Prime Minister intended, for
once, to recommend a whole new
positive Committee system for the Stormont
Government to bring in
3 Advisory Committees. They would include the
appointment of
2
Catholics from the S.D.L. P. /
Social Democratic Party to the chairmanship of two of them, but he was
then attacked by the Rev.
Ian Paisley the hard - line religious bigot for even suggesting such a thing. The Provisional IRA
/ Provos were not too excited about it either.
July 7th: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, during the Easter marches the "Official" I.R.A. became known as the Stickies after sticking on their paper Lillies with adhesive, while their other half the Provos / Provisional I.R.A.'s new title was Stickybacks as they used a pin to secure them instead. During the march by the junior Orangemen on the Tuesday in East Belfast in Co. Antrim an I.R.A. Provisional opened fire on them, shooting 4, while on the Springfield Road a bomb was thrown into the police barracks and Sergeant Willets was killed who was to be awarded the George Cross for bravery when he saved a Catholic woman and two children together with another man by his actions.
July 8th:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from
the 9 in the Ulster Province,
riots began again in the
Bogside
area at Derry in Co. Derry, which was
still
under the control of the
British Anglian Regiment. Two Catholics were killed by the British
Imperial Military there after an armoured
car was rammed and the Royal Anglian
Regiment came under attack by the
I.R.A, as they came to it's assistance, one of these was
Desmond Beattie
a
19 year old unemployed youth
who was shot dead with one shot. The other man
who was killed was
Seamus Cusack a 28 year old who was at that time
just walking along the street in the morning,
and the P.I.R.A. / Provisional IRA / Provos then organized a rally in
protest against the killings at the
Bogside.
Ruairi O Bradaigh
the President of
the political Provisional
Sinn Fein Party stated that the
Republicans
will have to bring down the "Official"
Unionist
Government in Stormont
if the "Troubles" were ever going to end
in these 6 Counties in
Ulster, and
Maire Drumm
their vice
- President declared that everyone should now join the I.R.A. to try and get the British
Imperial Government out of Ireland altogether.
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster
Province,
Brian Faulkner
the Prime Minister
of the "Official"
Unionist Stormont Government was expressing his
personal view now,
"That out of the evil in Derry may come some good," while once again
he was
pushing
Edward Heath
the Conservative
British Prime Minister in
England to allow him to bring in more negativity by allowing him to
introduce,
"Internment without Trial" in the 6 Counties
in Ulster still under their
control.
July 23rd:
In the 6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the 9 in the
Ulster Province, hundreds of British Imperial Military soldiers now
carried out further raids on the homes of the people in these
6 Counties, after a list was drawn up of
suspects including anyone the "Official"
Unionist Government thought was against them, and by co - incidence they were nearly all
Catholics.
July 31st:
In the 6
Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the
Ulster Province, to create greater pressure on the population there the British
Conservatives Government's
Military forces were moved into Derry in Co. Derry where the
I.R.A.
had their "No Go"
areas, which they had originally set up to protect the Catholic
Irish residents there and to try and keep the clashes down.
At the same time
Reginald Maudling the
British Conservative Government's Overseerer in
England of these 6 Counties
went on
T.V. there mentioning bringing in
"Internment without Trial" in
these 6 Counties in Ireland still under their control.
The Provisional IRA /
Provos had constantly increased their
bombings during June and
July and by now had exploded 125 devices.
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