The Troubles in Dungiven
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The Troubles in Dungiven recounts incidents during, and the effects of the Troubles in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
What is sometimes considered to be the first fatality of the Troubles occurred in Dungiven on 14 July 1969, with the death of 67 year old Catholic man Frances McCloskey. McCloskey had been found unconscious on 13 July near the Dungiven Orange Hall following a police baton charge against a crowd who had been throwing stones at the hall. Witnesses later said they had seen police batoning a figure in the doorway where McCloskey was found, although police claimed that he had been unconscious before the baton charge and may have been hit with a stone. He was taken to hospital and died the following day.
Other incidents included:
1972
- 24 June 1972 - Christopher Stevenson (24), David Moon (24) and Stuart Reid (26), all members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol, Crabarkey, near Dungiven.
