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Internment and the Market, 1922
On 28th October, the Market Development Association will launch “Pogrom and Partition – Belfast’s Market Area 1920-22”, a local history I’ve written for them. This is an extract from that publication, which examines how the internment clause of the Special Powers Act was applied in the area.
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Why “pogrom”?
As this is the inaugural post on this blog, a logical place to start is with the term “pogrom” itself, as using it to describe what happened in Belfast from 1920-1922 proved to be contentious with perpetrators, contemporary observers and historians in the hundred years since.
The Belfast Pogrom 