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" It was relavent of growing up in the Falls, we had to pass the Brits during the curfews you could only get out for a certain number of hours. This subsequently led to her being politicized. She was twelve when the British Army took over the streets of Belfast in 1969. Mairead was born in Belfast on the 3rd August 1957, the second youngest of six children and the only girl. To Mairead, however her membership was a logical decision made as a result of a political analysis drawn from both political experience and a study of Irish history, There was also shock at the time as to how a woman like Mairead could have become involved with the IRA. Staff stopped with their heads bowed and prayed as a mark of respect. When the bodies came through Dublin Airport, all the For many it was cold state-sanctioned murder, at point blank range.
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Three' had been infringed in breach of Article 2 – right to life, of theĮuropean Convention on Human Rights and criticised the authorities for lack of appropriate care in the control and organisation of the arrest operation. The court found that the three had been unlawfully killedīy a 10–9 majority it ruled that the human rights of the 'Gibraltar The relatives of McCann, Savage and Farrell were dissatisfied with the response to their case in the British legal system, so they took their case to the European Court of Human Rights in 1995. Paddy McGrory, lawyer for Amnesty International, believed that it had been a "perverse verdict," and that it had gone against the weight of the evidence. The 9-2 verdict is the smallest majority allowed. The coroner in summing up of the evidence to the jury told them to avoid an open verdict. At the inquest into the deaths held in Gibraltar the jury returned a verdict of lawful killing by a 9–2 majority. The British media at the time with the exception of Thames TVs Death on the Rock", repeated the British Army propoganda that the three were armed and the local eyewitness were lying. Re-opened claims that the government operated a ‘shoot-to kill’ policyĪnd, yet again, called into question the reputation of British justice. March 1988 executions led to a cycle of death in the north of Ireland, Gibraltar by the SAS has continued to haunt the British government. The gunning down of three unarmed IRA Activists on the streets of Volley of shots brought down Savage as he headed up an alleyway back Soldiers leaped over a barrier as Farrell and McCann lay dying in the Or three minutes after SAS soldiers took control from the GibraltarĪuthorities – all three IRA Activists were brought down in a hail of 29īullets, 16 pumped into Savage alone. What is undeniable is that just before four that afternoon – just two Their deaths were controversial as several eye witnesses confirmed that they were all were unarmed and with their hands up,The three wereīelieved at the time to be mounting a bombing attack on British military personnel
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Original versionīelow is the version published in The Gypsy of December 1934 (page 16), under the title “Immortality” and followed by the author’s name and location: “CLARE HARNER, Topeka, Kan.” The indentation and line breaks are as given there.On a quiet Sunday afternoon in Gibraltar on Ma,undercover British agents executed 3 members of an unarmed Provisional IRA unit, Sean Savage, Dan McCann and Mairéad Farrell shot.at close range as they lay wounded on the ground.
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However, the Oxford journal “Notes and Queries” published a 2018 article claiming the poem, originally titled “ Immortality“, was in fact written by Clare Harner Lyon (1909-1977) and first published under her maiden name (Harner) in the December 1934 issue of The Gypsy poetry magazine. This was purportedly confirmed in 1998 research conducted for the newspaper column “Dear Abby” (Pauline Phillips). During the late 1990s, Mary Elizabeth Frye claimed to have written the poem in 1932. The poem was popularized during the late 1970s thanks to a reading by John Wayne that inspired further readings on television. “ Do not stand at my grave and weep” is the first line and popular title of a bereavement poem of disputed authorship.