The Troubles in Derrylin

The Troubles in Derrylin recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

1972

• 21 September 1972 - Thomas Bullock (53), an off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, and his wife, Emily Bullock (50), were shot and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army at their home at Aghalane, near Derrylin.
• 16 December 1972 - Louis Leonard (26), a Provisional Irish Republican Army, was found shot at his butcher's shop.

1974

• 10 April 1974 - George Saunderson (58), an ex-member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was shot at his workplace, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
• 21 April 1974 - James Murphy (40), a civil rights activist was found shot at his garage in Corraveigh, near Derrylin.
• 02 December 1974 - John Maddocks (32), a member of the British Army, was killed by a booby trap bomb, hidden in milk churn left in field, while on foot patrol, near Derrylin, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

1985

• 01 February 1985 - James Graham (39), an off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was shot while driving a school bus, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

1988

• 06 April 1988 - William Burleigh (51), an off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby trap bomb attached to his car, Tirraroe, near Derrylin.

References

• NI Conflict Archive on the Internet