McGurk's Bar Bombing (1971)

One of the first major atrocities of “the Troubles,” a period of political violence in Ireland that began in the late 1960s, the bombing of Belfast’s predominantly Roman Catholic Tramore Bar—better known as McGurk’s—killed 15 people and injured 17. The first major attack on civilians by any of the region’s paramilitary organizations, the bombing provoked widespread political and public reaction. After losing both his wife and daughter in the bombing, the bar’s owner made what televised request? Discuss

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