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The Troubles in Derrylin

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The Troubles in Derrylin recounts incidents during, and the effects of, the Troubles in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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1972

  • 21 September—Thomas Bullock (53), an off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, and his wife, Emily Bullock (50), were shot and killed at their home at Aghalane, near Derrylin.
  • 16 December—Louis Leonard (26), a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, was found shot dead at his butcher's shop.

    • 1974

  • 10 April—George Saunderson (58), an ex-member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was shot at his workplace.
  • 21 April—James Murphy (40), a civil rights activist was found shot at his garage in Corraveigh, near Derrylin.
  • 2 December—John Maddocks (32), a member of the British Army, was killed by a booby trap bomb, hidden in a milk churn left in a field, while on foot patrol near Derrylin.

    • 1985

  • 1 February—James Graham (39), an off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was shot while driving a school bus.

    • 1988

  • 6 April 1988—William Burleigh (51), an off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was killed by a booby trap bomb attached to his car at Tirraroe, near Derrylin.

    • References

    The Troubles in Derrylin Wikipedia
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