State Violence and Collusion Timeline 1973

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Events related to state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland in 1973.

January

  • 20 - At 3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon, as Ireland were playing the All-Blacks Rugby team at Lansdowne Road, a car parked in Sackville Place, Dublin exploded, killing 21-year-old Tommy Douglas, a native of Stirling, Scotland.[1]

March

  • March undated - Brian Nelson and two other men abduct a partially-sighted man, Gerald Higgins, and take him to a UDA club where he is beaten, set on fire and electrocuted. Higgins is only saved when an Army patrol intervened as he is apparently being led to his execution.[2]

September

Notes

  1. DUBLIN BOMBING OF 20th JANUARY 1973, Justice for the Forgotten, accessed 19 June 2012.
  2. Sir Desmond de Silva, Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson, Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.
  3. David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, p.391.