Key Events & Deaths on this day in Northern Ireland Troubles
27th July
Wednesday 27 July 1977
Four people were shot dead and 18 were injured in the continuing feud between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and members of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA).
An off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was shot dead by the IRA in Belfast.
Tuesday 27 July 1993
Albert Reynolds, then Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), argued that the suggested Northern Ireland Select Committee for the House of Commons would have an adverse affect on the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA).
Thursday 27 July 1995
Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin (SF), met for their first official talks at Stormont.
Sunday 27 July 1997
James Morgan (16), a Catholic civilian, was found dead in a field in County Down. It was believed that he had been abducted by the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF).
Morgan had been missing since 24 July 1997. He had lived near Castlewellan, County Down.
[He had been tortured before being killed.]
27th or 29th July
James Marley (21) from west Belfast hung himself on the railings of a motorway in Belfast. He had previously suffered a paramilitary ‘punishment’ attack, and had both his legs broken, because of his alleged involvement in ‘joyriding’ in the west Belfast area.
Hours before he committed suicide he had attended an anti-joyriding meeting where he had appealed for more youth facilities in the area.
Monday 27 July 1998
Two brothers, both Catholic civilians, were shot and wounded in a Loyalist attack in Derry.
Bernadete Sands-McKevitt, sister of Bobby Sands and member of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, said that the use of physical force by Republicans would not end until British rule in Ireland ended
Tuesday 27 July 1999
Garda Síochána (the Irish police) investigating a plot to smuggle handguns from the United States of America arrested a man and two women in Inverin, County Galway, and recovered eight handguns that had arrived in two parcels through the post.
Earlier, in the US, the FBI detained two men and a woman in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and a Belfast man in Philadelphia in a transatlantic operation involving British and Irish police.
An FBI source was reported as saying that the guns were intended for the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
A Catholic church in Moneymore, County Derry, was attacked with a pipe-bomb. No one was injured in the incident.
A woman escaped injury after a bomb was left at her house in Larne, County Antrim. The woman heard a noise around midnight and discovered the device at the front of her house. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) moved the residents living on the street from their homes.
Both attacks were carried out by Loyalist paramilitaries.
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Remembering all innocent victims of the Troubles
Today is the anniversary of the death of the following people killed as a results of the conflict in Northern Ireland
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die
– Thomas Campbell
To the innocent on the list – Your memory will live forever
– To the Paramilitaries –
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, but nothing worth killing for.
10 People lost their lives on the 27th July between 1972 – 1997
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27 July 1972
Francis McStravick, (42)
Catholic
Status: Civilian (Civ),
Killed by: Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Found shot on waste ground, off Linfield Road, Sandy Row, Belfast.
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27 July 1975
William Hanna, (46)
Protestant
Status: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF),
Killed by: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) Also off duty Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) member.
Shot outside his home, Houston Park, Mourneview, Lurgan, County Armagh.
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27 July 1977
James McFaul, (38)
Protestant
Status: Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR),
Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Off duty. Shot at his home, Woodvale Avenue, Belfast.
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July 1977
Trevor McNulty, (26)
Catholic
Status: Civilian Political Activist (CivPA),
Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Republican Clubs member. Shot in the foyer of Alexander House, New Lodge, Belfast. Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) / Irish Republican Army (IRA) feud.
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27 July 1977
James Foots, (27)
Catholic
Status: Civilian (Civ),
Killed by: Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA)
Shot as he got out of car, Unity Flats, off Upper Library Street, Belfast. Brother member of Sinn Fein (SF). Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) / Irish Republican Army (IRA) feud.
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27 July 1977
Thomas Toland, (31)
Catholic
Status: Irish Republican Army (IRA),
Killed by: Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA)
Shot while walking along Divismore Crescent, Ballymurphy, Belfast. Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) / Irish Republican Army (IRA) feud.
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27 July 1977
Daniel Cowan, (39)
Catholic
Status: Civilian (Civ),
Killed by: Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA)
Shot at his home, Riverdale Park East, Andersonstown, Belfast. Previous occupier intended target. Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) / Irish Republican Army (IRA) feud
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27 July 1979
JAMES Wright, (48)
Protestant
Status: ex-Royal Ulster Constabulary (xRUC),
Killed by: Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
Killed by booby trap bomb attached to his car, outside his home, Corcrain Drive, Portadown, County
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27 July 1980
Robert Thompson, (26) nfNI
Status: British Army (BA),
Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Killed by remote controlled bomb hidden in parked car, detonated when British Army (BA) foot patrol approached, Moy Bridge, near Aughnacloy, County Tyrone.
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27 July 1997
James Morgan, (16)
Catholic
Status: Civilian (Civ),
Killed by: Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
Found beaten to death, in field, off Blackstaff Road, Clough, near Castlewellan, County Down.
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