State Violence and Collusion Timeline 1973
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]
- 9 - Prime Minister Edward Heath meets Taoiseach-elect Liam Cosgrave, and expresses concern about IRA cross-border operations. Cosgrave agrees to "consider changes in existing channels of communication on intelligence matters."[3]
- 20 - British Ambassador Sir Arthur Galsworthy pays his first visit to Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave.[3]
April
- 13 - Ambassador Galsworthy hands secret dossier on IRA active service units to Liam Cosgrave.[3]
- 16 - Hugh McCann of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs advises Ambassador Galsworthy that the Irish ambassador is agreeable to a small meeting of security experts.[3]
- 25 - British Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence Frederick Allen Rowley and Ambassador Galsworthy hold a secret meeting in Glencairn, Galsworthy's official residence, with Patrick Donegan, the Irish Minister for Defence, and his Departmental Secretary.[3]
May
- 5 - Ambassador Galsworthy meets Irish Justice Minister Patrick Cooney.[3]
September
- 16 - UDA figure Tommy Herron shot dead under mysterious circumstances.[4]
Notes
- ↑ DUBLIN BOMBING OF 20th JANUARY 1973, Justice for the Forgotten, accessed 19 June 2012.
- ↑ Sir Desmond de Silva, Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson, Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Ronan Fanning, Co-operating on the Border against a common enemy, independent.ie, 4 January 2004.
- ↑ David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, p.391.
