Quilt 1

Quilt 1

ROW 1

Left To Right:

Square 1

Robert (Bobby) Clarke

5th July 1973

A 56-year-old married man from Andersonstown. He had five children. He was shot by the UDA as he visited a builders yard off Donegal Road, Belfast.

Charles Vincent Clarke

4th February 1974

A 43-year-old married man from Dermott Hill. He had three Children. Shot by the UVF as he visited his mother’s home in the Whiterock Road area of west Belfast.

Mary Clarke

28th May 1972

A 27-year-old woman, from the Short Strand, East Belfast. She had three children. One of eight people killed when an IRA bomb exploded prematurely in Anderson Street in the Short Strand.

Square 2

2. John O’Hara

17th April 1991

A 41-year-old married man from the Short Strand, East Belfast. He had five children. Employed as a taxi driver, he was shot by the UDA/UFF after answering a bogus call to pick up a fare on the Lisburn Road, south Belfast.

Square 3

John Martin Quinn

3rd March 1991

A 23-year-old single man from Lurgylea Road, Cappagh. IRA member. One of four men killed when the UVF attacked Boyle’s bar in the village of Cappagh.

Square 4

Kevin Mulligan

16th March 1988

A 27-year-old single man from Short Strand, East Belfast. He was shot dead by the UDA while working as a motor mechanic in a garage on the Beersbridge Road, Belfast.

Square 5

Hugh ‘Gilly’ Gilmore

30th January 1972

A 17-year-old from Garvin Place, Derry. One of thirteen people killed by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday in Derry.

Square 6

Peter Cleary

15th April 1976

A 25-year-old single man from Armagh. IRA member. Shot by the SAS near Forkhill, Armagh. Taken from a house by the SAS to an outhouse and shot three times. Soldiers said he had tired to escape. Captain Robert Nairac was alleged to have been involved.

Square 7

Brendan Moley

29th February 1988

A 30-year-old single man from Cullyhanna, south Armagh. IRA member. Died when a bomb exploded prematurely in a barn near Crossmaglen.

Row 2

Left To Right:

Square 1

Jackie Mailey

21st June 1978

A 31-year-old married man from Ardoyne, north Belfast. He had three children. IRA member. Shot dead by the SAS along with 3 other IRA volunteers and a Protestant man who was passing by. None of the men were armed and a statement from the IRA said the intention was to firebomb a post office depot on the Ballysillan Road, as it was a communication target.

Square 2

Sean Ruddy

23rd October 1971

Sean Ruddy was 19 years of age from Newry. He was shot dead along with Robert Anderson and Thomas James McLaughlin by British soldiers in Newry, Co. Down, on 24 October 1971.

The three men were shot in a premeditated, pre-planned shoot-to-kill operation by the British Army who secreted themselves on the roof of buildings overlooking the bank. The British Army claimed to have a tip off that the bank was to be bombed.

As the men approached the bank they were shot without warning by the British Army clearly using unreasonable and unnecessary force in the circumstances. Indeed if the British Army and the RUC had a tip off then they should have put into place an effective preventative operation that ensured arrests prior to any possible alleged actions that could have endangered lives, if there were to be a bomb. They totally failed in that regard acting contrary to international law enforcements and Article 2 of the ECHR. And of course there was no bomb. Like many situations where the British army and the RUC took life unnecessarily misinformation and lies were used to both distort the facts and justify the illegal action. Sections of the media, ironically relying on information provided by the British Army, reported this misinformation. Some of the relatives have always maintained that they were not about to rob the bank and have disputed this allegation citing that this was used as further cover up in an attempted to justify the killings when the bogus bomb story was eventually proved false.

Square 3

Tony Fusco

9th February 1989

A 33-year-old married man from The Divis Flats, west Belfast. He had two children. He was shot dead by the UVF as he walked to work at Smithfield market, Belfast. His wife was expecting their third child at the time. He had worked for a glazing firm on the Shankill Road.

Square 4

Gerard McAuley

15th August 1969

A 15-year-old schoolboy from the Clonard area of Belfast. He was a member of the Fianna. He was shot dead by a loyalist gunman as he defended Clonard Monastery at Bombay Street from loyalist mobs.

Square 5

Aidan Wallace

22nd December 1991

A 22-year-old single man from Ashton Park, south Belfast. Shot dead by the UVF as he played snooker with his brother in the Devenish Arms off Finaghy Road, Belfast. The UDA opened fire inside the crowded bar wounding three others. One victim, an 8-year-old boy, was singled out because he was wearing a Celtic top lost an eye after being shot in the head.

Square 6

John Dempsey

8th July1981

A 16-year-old from Turf Lodge, west Belfast. A member of the Fianna. He was shot by British soldiers in an incident at the Falls Road bus depot during disturbances following the death of Hunger Striker Joe McDonnell.

Square 7

Jack Duffin

5th February 1992

A 66-year-old married man from south Belfast. He had three children. One of five Catholics shot dead when UFF gunmen attacked a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, south Belfast. Forty-four shots were fired at the fifteen customers and staff with only three people escaping serious injury.

ROW 3

Left to Right:

Square 1

Tony McGrady

25th August 1973

A 16-year-old from St. James’ Place, Belfast. A young garage apprentice, he was killed with the owner of the garage and his brother when the UVF carried out a gun and bomb attack on the garage on the Cliftonville Road area of North Belfast.

Square 2

Gerry O’Neill

30th September 1982

A 28-year-old Catholic man from the Markets area of South Belfast. He was shot dead by the UVF as he worked at a petrol station on the Ormeau Road. He struggled with his attackers before being killed.

Square 3

Charles Maguire

28th May 1981

A 21-year-old married man from Derry. He had one child. IRA member. He was killed in a shoot out with undercover soldiers. Another volunteer, George McBrearty, was also killed. Versions differed with the IRA saying that the soldiers opened fire on the car killing Charles Maguire.

Square 4

Thomas ‘Kidso’ Reilly

9th August 1983

A 20-year-old single man from Turf Lodge, west Belfast. He was shot in the back and killed by a British soldier. Private Ian Thain was convicted of murder and became the first soldier jailed for life while on duty in the north of Ireland. He served less than three years and on his release was reinstated back into the army.

Square 5

Seamus Donnelly

8th May 1987

A 19-year-old from Armagh. He was one of eight men killed by the SAS at Loughgall. They were ambushed as they attempted to blow up the part-time police station in Loughgall. The SAS were waiting and opened fire from several different positions. A civilian, Anthony Hughes, was also killed and his brother seriously wounded.

Square 6

Terry McCafferty

31st January 1974

A 37-year-old married man from Ligoniel, north Belfast. He had three children. He was one of two men shot dead when two UDA men fired into a workman’s hut at Whiteabbey. Three other men were also injured in the same incident.

Square 7

Thomas Burns

13th July 1972

A 32-year-old married man from North Belfast. He had four children. Shot dead when a soldier opened fire from an observation post at men leaving Glenpark Social Club on the Oldpark Road, North Belfast.

Row 4

Left To Right:

Square 1

Hugh Coney

6th November 1974

A 24-year-old single man from Annaghmore, Coalisland. IRA member. He was shot dead by soldiers as he attempted to escape from Long Kesh prison camp where he was an internee

Square 2

Larry Brennan

19th January 1998

A 52-year-old from Friendly Street in the Markets area of South Belfast. He had two children. He was shot by the UDA as he sat outside a taxi firm on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. He died a short time later in the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Square 3

Patsy Duffy

24th November 1978

A 50-year-old married man, with children, from Derry. IRA member. Shot by British soldiers who had staked out a house in Derry. He was unarmed and was shot in the back and side between 11-14 times.

Square 4

Jim Dorrian

12TH June 1970

A 4-year-old child from the Short Strand, Belfast. He was killed by an army land rover in Altcar Street, Short Strand. His father later joined the IRA and was kill in a bomb explosion in 1972.

Square 5

Pete Ryan

3rd June 1991

A 37-year-old single man from Ardboe, Co. Tyrone. IRA member. He was one of three IRA volunteers shot dead by the SAS as they travelled in a car through Coagh. The car was hit by about 200 shots and burst into flame.

Square 6

Charles McGrillen

15th March 1988

A 25-year-old married man from the Ormeau Road, south Belfast. He had one child. He was shot by the UDA as he worked in the yard of Dunne’s Stores on the Annadale embankment. He was a senior trade union official in the TGWU.

Square 7

Robert Skillen

13th March 1975

A 19-year-old single man from the Falls Road area of west Belfast. He was shot by the UDA as he stood in a corner shop at North Queen Street, Belfast on the 22nd February 1975. He was on a life support machine but died on the 13th March 1975.

ROW 5

Left to Right:

Square 1

Martin Moran

25th October 1993

A 22-year-old father from the Ormeau Road area, south Belfast. He had a five-week-old child. He was shot by the UDA as he delivered a Chinese meal to a home in Donegall Pass.

Square 2

Bernard O’Hagan

16th September 1991

A 38-year-old married man from Swatragh, Co. Derry. He had three children. He was a Sinn Fein councillor and a lecturer at Magherafelt College of Further Education. Loyalist gunmen shot him as he parked his car and was walking towards the college. He was the second Sinn Fein member of Magherafelt Council to be killed by loyalists.

Square 3

John Michael Feeney

27th April 1975

A 45-year-old married man from Armagh. He had eight children. He was one of three men killed when the UVF burst into a darts club near Bleary, Portadown. A fourth man was also seriously injured.

Square 4

Nora McCabe

9th August 1981

A 33-year-old from the Falls Road area of west Belfast. She had three young children, the youngest three months old. She was killed by a plastic bullet fired by the RUC on the morning of the death of hunger striker Joe McDonnell.

 

Square 5

Colm Mulgrew

5th June 1976

A 26-year-old married man from the Limestone Road, north Belfast. He was a Sinn Fein member and was shot by the UDA after answering a knock at the front door of his home.

Square 6

Martin Harte

30th August 1988

A 29-year-old married man from Co. Tyrone. He had one child. IRA member. On of three men killed in an SAS ambush in Drumnakelly.

Square 7

Tony Davidson

21st July 1972

A 21-year-old married man from west Belfast. Shot by the UDA when he answered a knock at the front door of his home. He died two hours later in hospital.

ROW 6

Left To Right:

Square 1

Danny Cassidy

2nd April 1992

A 40-year-old married man from Kilrea, Co. Derry. He had four children. He was shot by the UFF/UDA when they sprayed his car with bullets as he talked to a friend. The family has always claimed collusion between loyalists and the security forces in his killing.

Square 2

Gerard McCusker

13th May 1972

A 24-year-old single man from the Falls Road area, west Belfast. He was shot and beaten by the UDA as he walked up part of the Shankill Road intending to cut through one of the side streets to his home on the Falls Road.

Square 3

Gerard McCarthy

21st March 1974

A 28-year-old single man from Madrid Street, east Belfast. He was shot by the UDA as a workers lorry carrying twenty men left Duncrue Street in the docks area. Five of his work mates were also injured.

Square 4

Helen Carmel Knox

16th March 1972

A 20-year-old married woman from Lurgan, Co. Armagh. She had one child. She was killed by a bomb left by loyalists at a ladies toilet at Market Street in the centre of Lurgan. Her husband who was standing outside was also injured.

Square 5

Patrick Hughes

22nd August 1972

A 41-year-old married man from the Derrybeg estate in Newry. He had six children. IRA member. One of nine people killed when a bomb exploded prematurely at Newry customs station.

Square 6

John Francis Green

10th January 1975

A 27-year-old married man from Lurgan, Co. Down. He had three children. IRA member. He was on the run having escaped from Long Kesh prison two years earlier. His body was found at a house in Co. Monaghan. British Intelligence and the UVF were believed to have been responsible for his death.

Square 7

Carol Anne Kelly

22nd May 1981

A 12-year-old schoolgirl from Twinbrook, Belfast. She was shot on the head with a plastic bullet fired by the British Army outside her home in the Twinbrook estate. She was placed on a life support machine but died five days later from massive brain damage.

ROW 7

Left To Right:

Square 1

Loughlinn Maginn

25th August 1989

A 28-year-old married man from Rostrevor, Co. Down. He had four children. He was shot by the UDA/UFF who burst into his home on the small Lissize estate. After the killing the UFF showed a BBC reporter pictures acquired from the security forces of suspects, one of them being Loughlinn Maginn.

Square 2

Colm McGirr

4th December 1983

A 19-year-old single man from Coalisland, Co. Tyrone. IRA member. He was one of two men shot by the SAS at Clonoe Road near the town. He was hit by 13 bullets after the SAS lay in wait watching an arms cache discovered earlier.

Square 3

John Finucane

28th June 1972

A 21-year-old man from Andersonstown, west Belfast. IRA member. He was one of two men killed in a car crash on the Falls Road. He was a former internee who had been released a short time earlier.

Square 4

Katrina Rennie

28th March 1991

A 16-year-old girl from Craigavon, Co. Armagh. She was one of three people shot dead by the UVF at a mobile shop in the Drumbeg estate, Craigavon.

 

Square 5

Mary Clarke

28th May 1972

A 27-year-old married woman from Anderson Street, Short Strand, East Belfast. She had three children. One of eight people killed when a bomb exploded prematurely in the street where she lived.

Square 6

Dermot McShane

13th July 1996

A 35-year-old married man from Lone Moor Road in the Brandywell area of Derry. He had two stepchildren. He was killed by a British Army Saxon armoured car that crushed him as he was standing behind a corrugated sheet held up as a shield during disturbances in Derry.

Square 7

Paddy Brady

16th November 1984

A 36-year-old married man from St. James area of west Belfast. He had two children. A member of Sinn Fein he was shot dead by the UDA/UFF as he arrived for work at Kennedy’s Dairy, Boucher Road, Belfast. Loyalist gunman Michael Stone was convicted of the killing.