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Time for Truth Campaign National Day of Action
By Ciarán MacAirt |
The families of the Time for Truth Campaign mobilized for a National Day of Action against Britain's amnesty proposals.
Read More The Killing of Marian Brown
By Ciarán MacAirt |
The killing of teenager Marian Brown is recorded as the prosaic “Mulhouse Shooting” in secret British Military archives. The mill on Mulhouse Street had been taken over by the British Army as barracks. Three other unarmed teenagers were also hit in the shooting including Thomas Corrigan, Marian’s boyfriend, her sister and another local teenager. Their […]
Read More Did William Craig Fake His Own Assassination Attempt?
By Ciarán MacAirt |
Who tried to assassinate William Craig in October 1972?
Read More Internment Files Released for 50th Anniversary
By Ciarán MacAirt |
New Evidence: Operation Demetrius and Internment August 9th sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of Operation Demetrius, the British Army operation of mass arrest and internment without trial of Irish Catholics suspected by the British authorities of being involved in the Irish Republican Army. Most were not. If ever proof was needed that the […]
Read More Podcast 8: Gerry Fitt – Snake in the Grass?
By Ciarán MacAirt |
In this Paper Trail Pro Podcast, Ciarán MacAirt discovers some of Westminster's dirty secrets and asks was Gerry Fitt a Snake in the Grass?
Read More Bloody Friday in the News
By Ciarán MacAirt |
Bloody Friday - one of the most devastating days during the conflict. Victims and survivors can read some of the news articles we collected.
Read More To the Family of Robert McMullan: Contact Request
By Ciarán MacAirt |
Paper Trail is requesting contact with the family of Robert McMullan who was shot dead in New Barnsley on 13th May 1972.
Read More To the Family of Anthony Davidson: Contact Request
By Ciarán MacAirt |
Paper Trail is hoping to contact the family of Anthony Davidson who was murdered on 21st July 1972. Contact Ciarán at Paper Trail
Read More New Evidence: British Army Killed Protestant Civilian and Blamed It on IRA
By Ciarán MacAirt |
New evidence that a soldier of the King’s Regiment killed unarmed Protestant civilian, Thomas Mills, but then blamed it on the IRA.
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