Attack on IRA funeral

Title

Attack on IRA funeral

Genre

Special

TX Date

16 Mar 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:00:27

Description

Actuality recording from Milltown Cemetary in Belfast on a gun and grenade attack at the funeral of the three alleged IRA terrorists shot dead in Gibraltar by the SAS (06/03/88). Includes speaker talking to crowd through a megaphone (poss. Gerry Adams). Three people were killed and more than fifty injured.

Contributors

Gerry Adams?

Keywords

Northern Ireland; Terrorism; IRA; Funerals; Belfast; Mairead Farrell; Sean Savage; Danny McCann

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