The Troubles in Portadown
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The Troubles in Portadown recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Portadown was the site of an annual parade in July by the Orange Order, from the Drumcree Church through the mainly nationalist section of the Garvaghy Road. The Orange Order is viewed by some Roman Catholics as anti-Catholic. Garvaghy Road is part of a small Catholic enclave in the town. The residents refused to let the march pass, claiming it triumphalist and a mark of positioning them as second-class citizens. However, the Orange Order argue that the parade has been passing through the area long before it was ever developed.
Incidents in Portadown during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:
1972
- 12 July 1972 - Jack McCabe (48), Catholic and William Cochrane (53), Protestant, both civilians, were shot and killed by the Ulster Defence Association while inside McCabe's Bar, High Street, Portadown.[1]
1978
- 8 March 1978 - Thomas Trainor (29), a member of the Irish National Liberation Army, and Denis Kelly (31), civilian, both Catholics, were shot and killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force from a passing motor cycle shortly after leaving the Department of Health and Social Services office, Armagh Road, Portadown.[1]
1997
- 27 April 1997 - Robert Hamill, a Catholic civilian, was kicked to death by a mob of up to thirty Protestants in Portadown town centre.
[edit] References
- ^ a b http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/ NI Conflict Archive on the Internet
