1971 AD - 4
September:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province by the British Imperial Government in 1922
and still under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist
Government, William Hull
had formed the
Loyalist
Association of Workers / L. A.W. and carried out rallies and speeches
under the Ulster Flag of the Red Hand.
He was demanding a military solution
in these 6 Counties in Ulster
stating he was British
to the core but would take on the
British Conservative Government if they tried to implement the re
- unification of
Ireland.
The
Rev.
Ian Paisley
and
William Craig the other two Unionist hard - line
leaders in the 6 Counties in
Ulster, once again, also joined forces for the continuation of the
Ascendancy cause there, and the Rev.
Ian Paisley the also set up another organization of his own to be known as the
Civilian Defence Corps.
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province,
John Hume
the M.P. from
the S.D.L.P
/ Social Democratic
Labour Party and
Ivan Cooper
the
non - Catholic M.P.
were arrested by
the British Imperial Military
forces
and interned in Derry in
Co. Derry, "For failing to move on command of Her Majesty's
Imperial Forces," under the
Special Powers Act that authorised
detention and internment. This was the very thing that they had been protesting about, and
they were later released on bail, and subsequently appealed the charge and found a loophole in the
Government of Ireland Act 1920.
According to this Act
when the
British Imperial Government artificially
partitioned the
6 Counties from the 9
in the Ulster Province they had included that,"
The Stormont Parliament was to have no power to make laws in respect of either
the British Imperial Army, the British Imperial Air Force or the British
Imperial Navy. The
British Imperial Military
had acted
beyond
it's powers at the behest of the
"Official" Unionist Stormont Government and even the
Internment
was also illegal. Edward Heath the British Prime Minister
and the Conservative Government,
as
usual, hurriedly changed the law to suite and brought in
a
Northern Ireland Act of 1972 to
legalise all the
British Imperial Military
actions in the 6 Counties in
Ulster. Reginald Maudling
the British Conservatives' Home
Secretary said that they were now entering a new phase,
with
" Transfer of Responsibility,"
which meant the transfer of powers from
the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government at Belfast
in Co. Antrim to
the British Westminster
Government, which would eventually bring
the "Official"
Unionist Stormont Government to a sudden end, and the
British Imperial Government
in
England taking over Direct Rule in these
6 Counties in Ulster.
September 6th:
Jack Lynch
the Prime Minister of the Irish
Republic met with
Edward Heath
the
British Conservative Prime Minister
at Chequers
to bring
about a sensible solution for all of the people in
Ireland and then had further
discussions with both
Edward Heath
and
Brian Faulkner the
"Official" Unionist
Prime Minister, in the
6
Counties
artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the
Ulster Province,
to
discuss the Sunningdale Agreement,
which was to become a reality in the future, but nothing
was to come of it at this
time.
September 26th:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province,
David Bleakley
the Labour Party
member
in the Stormont Parliament
resigned, and stated that he could no longer serve in an "Official"
Unionist Party Government
especially since the introduction of,
"Internment without Trial."
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province, the
British Imperial Military
forces
strength was now up to
13,600
soldiers and they also raised
3
more
Defence Regiment Battalions
and began the demolition of the minor roads along the
artificial
border with these 6 Counties in
Ulster.
Brian Faulkner
the "Official" Unionist Stormont Prime
Minister now appointed a
Catholic, Dr. Gerard Neve
to his Cabinet
at
Stormont, who was
to be the first
Catholic ever in
the Stormont Government, but unfortunately he had no idea what was going on and the
"Official"
Unionists themselves
were by now completely out of ideas. The
R.U.C. police were
once again carrying side arms and also
Stirling machine guns, and the
secret groups among the individual
Unionists were
also growing in strength.
William Craig
the Unionist
hard - liner
also formed a Unionist Steering
Committee in Portadown,
with himself as the chairman, to formulate policies to suite the
Unionists in these
6 Counties in Ulster.
November:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province, the interrogation carried out in the
Internment Camps on those
prisoners who had been taken under "Interment without Trial"
under the "Official"
Unionist Government in
Stormont was at an
end. General
Tuzo the
British Imperial Government Military
commander had
previously acted on the list drawn up by the "Official" Unionists
and had by now begun to realise finally that he had taken mostly only political
prisoners. They were not the ones that he himself would have wanted to take
into custody, and he was now forced
to admit that the disruptions and killings because of this would continue to go on. The
Crompton Commission
found that
some torture had been used on the prisoners they had
"Interned without Trial," and
Jack Lynch the Prime
Minister in the
Irish Republic
took their case to the
European Court of Human Rights, which found the
British Conservative Government
guilty of, "Inhuman or degrading
treatment."
The P.I.R.A.
/ Provisional IRA / Provos were by now
also much stronger under the leadership of
Sean Mac Stiofain / John Stevenson,
and they now increased their attacks, causing great
damage to property, and the British Conservatives
were
also now having trouble getting any further
cannon fodder to use in the
6 Counties in Ulster as their
recruitments fell away.
December:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province,
Brian Faulkner
the
"Official" Unionist Prime Minister
in desperation of coming up with a positive solution now granted limited recognition to the
Rev.
Ian Paisley's Civilian
Defence Force. There were to be great disturbances and violence
occurring now throughout these
6 Counties in Ulster, and
Edward Heath
the
British Conservative Prime Minister
himself made a flying visit to these 6
Counties in
Ulster to try and lift the spirits of the
British
Imperial Military forces there.
December 29th:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province,
the I.R.A.
had
previously declared
a ceasefire over the Christmas
period, but a British
Imperial
Military
soldier from the British Light Air
Defence Regiment was shot dead in
Derry in Co. Derry on this day, and there were
further riots in the Bogside area.
December 30th:
John Mac Cabe
the aged
I.R.A. bomb expert
died in
Dublin,
while preparing bombs to
be used by the I.R.A.
in the 6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the
Ulster Province,
after an explosion was caused by a spark from his shovel. The
Official I.R.A.
in these 6 Counties in
Ulster set fire to the
home of Major
Ivan Neill who was the
Speaker in the
Stormont
Parliament there.
December 31st:
In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province, and still under the control of the
"Official" Unionist Stormont Government and the
British
Conservative Government.