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The Troubles in Ardoyne lists incidents during the Troubles in the Ardoyne district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1971

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  • 15 February: A British soldier was shot in the head and killed by an IRA sniper while taking part in a mobile-patrol in Ardoyne. Two British Army scout cars came under sniper fire and had a bomb thrown at them.[1][2]
  • 23 August: A British soldier was shot dead by an IRA sniper on Flax Street in the Ardoyne area. The soldier was shot in the head as he exited a British armoured vehicle.[1][3]
  • 17 September: A British soldier was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on foot-patrol in Ardoyne.[1]
  • 1 October: A British soldier was shot dead in an IRA gun-attack on a British Army foot-patrol in the Ardoyne area.[1]
  • 21 December 1971: An unarmed IRA volunteer was shot after being captured by the British Army in Ardoyne.[1]

1972

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1973

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  • 28 February: A British soldier was killed in an IRA gun attack on a patrol in the Ardoyne area.[5]
  • 17 April 1973: An IRA volunteer was shot dead by a British Army sniper while standing talking with a number of men in Ardoyne.[5]
  • 10 June: The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) shot dead a Catholic civilian in the Deerpark Road area adjacent to Ardoyne.[6]

1974

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  • 25 November: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian outside Ewart's Mill. They had assumed he was a Catholic.[7][8]

1975

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  • 5 April: The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) shot dead a Catholic civilian as he walked home at Etna Drive.[9]
  • 2 May: The IRA shot dead a UDA member at his workplace, Ardoyne Bus Depot, on Ardoyne Road.[10][11]

1976

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  • 10 March: The IRA shot dead Sammy Smyth (former UDA spokesman) on Alliance Avenue.[12][13]
  • 13 March: An ex-British soldier was shot dead on Alliance Avenue.[12]
  • 5 June: The UDA carried out a drive-by shooting at the Crumlin Star Bar in Brompton Park. A Catholic civilian died of his wounds two days later. An RUC detective said it was a random sectarian attack.[14]
  • 24 October: Two British soldiers were killed when an IRA sniper team ambushed a British patrol in Ardoyne.[12]

1977

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  • 20 April: Two Catholic civilians were killed when the UVF exploded a bomb at the funeral of a Provisional IRA volunteer on Etna Drive.[15][16]
  • 27 February: An ex-British soldier was shot dead by the IRA in the Ardoyne area.[16]
  • 17 April: An IRA volunteer was shot dead by a British Army sniper on Flax Street.[16]
  • 28 August: A British soldier was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on foot patrol in the Ardoyne area.[16]

1979

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  • 5 January – Two members of the IRA, Francis Donnelly (24) and Lawrence Montgomery (24), were killed in Northwick Drive, Ardoyne, when the car bomb they were transporting exploded prematurely.[17]

1980

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  • 16 August: A civilian was accidentally shot dead by the IRA during a gun attack on an RUC patrol in Ardoyne.[18]

1981

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  • 27 March: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Berwick Road.[19][20]

1987

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  • 10 March: An RUC officer was killed when the IRA detonated a remote controlled bomb at the Ardoyne Shops on Crumlin Road. The RUC had been lured to the area by a hoax phone call claiming an armed robbery was in progress. The IRA had correctly anticipated which doorway the RUC would take cover in and detonated a small booby-trap bomb when they arrived. The IRA claimed his death was retaliation for "RUC brutality at republican funerals".[21][22]
  • 2 April: The UVF shot dead an IRA volunteer at his home in Ardoyne.[21][23]
  • 12 July: A former member of the Royal Air Force was shot dead by the IRA on Alliance Avenue. The IRA said it had intervened "to end an hour-long attack by loyalists on the area". Locals claimed the man had been attempting to stop youths from throwing stones and bottles into the nearby Catholic area. A 16-year-old was also wounded in the shooting.[24]

1989

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  • 19 March: The UVF shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Alliance Avenue.[25][26]

1992

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  • 21 February: The Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) claimed responsibility for a gun and grenade attack on the home of a Sinn Féin councillor in Ardoyne.[27]
  • 12 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Alliance Avenue.[28][29]

1993

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  • 31 August: In an attack in Ardoyne, two British soldiers were wounded when the IRA detonated a car-bomb near their patrol.[30]
  • 21 September 1993: A British soldier was wounded when an IRA unit threw a blast-bomb at his patrol in the Ardoyne area.[30]

1997

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Riot police and burnt out car in Ardoyne, 2011
  • 13 March: A British soldier was injured by an IRA grenade in Ardoyne. Several people were arrested in the aftermath.[31]
  • 8 July: There was a gun battle between loyalist and IRA volunteers in Ardoyne. The IRA state that two loyalists were wounded.[32]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Malcolm Sutton. "An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland". CAIN.
  2. ^ McKittrick, p.67
  3. ^ McKittrick, p.93
  4. ^ "A Chronology of the Conflict – 1972". CAIN.
  5. ^ a b Malcolm Sutton. "Sutton Index of Deaths – 1973". CAIN.
  6. ^ McKittrick, p.366
  7. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1974". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  8. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  9. ^ McKittrick, p.530
  10. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1975". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  11. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  12. ^ a b c Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1976". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  13. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  14. ^ McKittrick, p.643
  15. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1977". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  16. ^ a b c d "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". Cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  17. ^ "Sutton Index of Deaths – 1979". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  18. ^ "A Chronology of the Conflict – 1980". CAIN.
  19. ^ CAIN Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths Archived 14 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ a b Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  22. ^ McKittrick, p. 1064
  23. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1987". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  24. ^ McKittrick, p. 1087
  25. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1989". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  26. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  27. ^ Peter Heathwood Collection of television programs: 1992. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN).
  28. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1992". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  29. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  30. ^ a b Fortnight, Issues 319–323, Fortnight Publications, 1993
  31. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes - Search Page". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  32. ^ IRA engages Crown Forces An Phoblacht, 10 July 1997
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