Holy War in Belfast by Andrew Boyd (HQ890)

Published 1969: Third Edition, October 1969 / Softcover / Very Good Condition

Original stiff card covers. 203 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on covers and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. Scarce! (HQ890)

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From the back cover:

The disturbances were savage, repeated and prolonged . . . '
Winston Churchill
. . . our church is now in a melancholy condition. Political and religious bigotry have mingled together; and those who foment the persecutions amongst us have made it their policy so to conjoin the two principles that scarce an individual is now held orthodox who is not also an enemy to the civil or religious rights of his fellow men. (Henry Montgomery, 1829)

. . . the excitement in Belfast did not subside. Eventually dangerous riots, increasing in fury until they almost amounted to warfare, occurred in the streets between the factions of Orange and Green. Firearms were used freely by the police and combatants. Houses were sacked and men and women killed. The disturbances were savage, repeated, and prolonged. (Winston Churchill)

. . . the police discovered an astonishing number of unlicensed guns, as well as swords, daggers and even spears. They found a man in Carrick Hill with an ancient cannon, loaded and ready for action.

Falls Road was a strange sight that night. The people of this completely Catholic district lamented the defeat of Home Rule by setting their chimneys on fire. The chimneys belched flames and choking black smoke into the air, making the atmosphere, as the Belfast News Letter described it, as thick as a London fog. Whilst the smoke enveloped the Falls, hundreds of tar-barrels blazed in triumph along the Shankill.

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