The Belfast Pogrom

Occasional articles about the political/sectarian conflict in Belfast from 1920-1922

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  • The use of bombs in Belfast

    “Bomb” was a common description applied to hand-grenades, which were used by both republicans and loyalists in some of the most notorious incidents of the conflict. The period also saw new types of bombs being developed, including a forerunner of the petrol bomb and delayed-action devices fitted with timers.

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  • The many armies of Patrick Barnes

    In a tumultuous decade that took him from the Western Front to the Argenta, one Belfast man served with five different military forces: the British Army in 1914, the Irish Volunteers in the Easter Rising, the IRA during the Pogrom, the anti-Treaty IRA and the National Army in the Curragh.

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  • Belfast men in the National Army during the Civil War

    The outbreak of the Civil War on 28 June 1922 contributed to the diminishing of violence in Belfast. But it saw hundreds of men, former IRA and Fianna members as well as non-republicans, travelling south to enlist in the National Army. What did they experience in that conflict?

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  • “Catholics being exterminated” – seven days in April 1922

    In just one week of vicious sectarian violence, twenty people were killed: men, women, children and combatants from both sides. People were evicted and saw their homes burned. Nationalists were in despair.

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  • Constitutional nationalists: Part 2

    Part 1 of this post examined the roles of Joe Devlin and the Ancient Order of Hibernians up to the General Election of 1921. This part reviews events between the election and the end of the Pogrom.

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  • Constitutional nationalists: Part 1

    Much of the historical writing about the Pogrom from a nationalist perspective has concentrated on the IRA and republicanism more generally. But when the Pogrom began, republicans were a minority among Belfast nationalists – and the IRA were not the only ones with guns.

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    You mentioned Andrew Boyd in connection with a reprint of Hassan’s “Facts and Figures of the Belfast Pogrom” Strange you…

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