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]
  • 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]

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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Ronan Fanning, Co-operating on the Border against a common enemy, independent.ie, 4 January 2004.
  4. David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, p.391.