Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland

by Ed Moloney

  Behan, Brendan, 1

  Beirut, 1

  Belfast: see individual districts and streets

  Belfast City Commission, 1

  Belfast City Council, 1, 2

  Belfast City Hall, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Belfast City Hospital, 1, 2

  Belfast Corporation, 1

  Belfast High Court, 1

  Belfast Lough, 1, 2

  Belfast Telegraph, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Belgium, 1

  Belgrade Street, Belfast, 1

  Bell, Brian, 1n

  Bell, Ivor, plate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

  Bennett, Joe, 1, 2n

  Beresford, David: Ten Men Dead, 1

  Berlin Arms, Belfast, 1

  Berry, Anthony ‘Chuck’, 1, 2n

  Best, William, 1

  Bin Laden, Osama, 1

  Birmingham pub bombings (1974), 1

  Bishopsgate bombing (1993), 1

  Black, James, 1

  Black Mountain, 1

  Blackwater Street, Belfast, 1

  Blair, Tony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  ‘Bloody Friday’ (21 July 1972), plate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  ‘Bloody Sunday’ (1920), 1

  ‘Bloody Sunday’ (30 January 1972), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Boal, Desmond, 1

  Bob (Noraid contact), 1

  Bodenstown, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bogside, Derry, 1, 2

  Boland, Harry, 1, 2, 3

  Bombay Street, Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Bosnia Street, Belfast, 1

  Boston, 1

  Boston College, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

  Botanic Avenue, Belfast, 1

  Boundary Commission, 1

  Boyne, Battle of the, 1, 2n, 3

  Bradford, Robert, 1

  Braniel, 1

  Bratty, Joe, 1

  Breton Nationalists, 1

  British Army, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32n, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54;

  Force Research Unit, 1, 2;

  Irish Regiments, 1;

  Military Intelligence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18;

  Military Reaction Force (MRF), 1, 2n, 3, 4;

  Northern Ireland – Future Terrorist Trends, 1;

  see also Four Square Laundry operation, MI5, MI6, Operation Demetrius, Operation Motorman, and individual regiments

  British Courage (tanker), 1

  British Embassy, Dublin, 1

  British General Elections: 1970: 1;

  1974: 1, 2, 3;

  1983: 1;

  1997: 1

  British governments, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17n, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24n, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48

  British Intelligence, see British Army: Military Intelligence

  British Petroleum (BP), 1

  Brixton prison, 1

  Brolly, Francie, 1

  Brooke, Sir Basil, 1

  Brooke, Peter, 1, 2, 3

  Brookeborough, Lord, 1, 2

  Brookeborough RUC station, 1

  Brown, Patsy, 1

  Brun, Bairbre de, 1

  Brussels, 1

  Bruton, John, 1, 2

  Bryson, Jim, 1, 2n

  Bunreacht na hEireann (Irish constitution), 1

  Bunting, Major, 1, 2

  Bunting, Ronnie, 1, 2

  ‘Burke and Hare’ (IRA Security Department operatives), 1

  Burning Embers, Belfast, 1, 2

  Burns, Harry (‘Big Harry’), 1, 2

  Burns family, 1

  Burnside, David, 1, 2n, 3n

  Burt, Ian, 1

  Bush, George W., 1

  Bush Bar, Belfast, 1, 2, 3

  Cahill, Joe, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Cahill, Martin, 1

  Cahill, Tom, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Campbell, Bobby, 1, 2

  Campbell, Robert, 1

  Campbell, Yank, 1

  Canada, 1

  Canary Wharf bombing, 1, 2

  Cape Town, 1, 2

  Cappagh, 1n, 2

  Card, Frank, see MacAirt, Proinsias Carlin, Willie, 1

  Carlingford Lough, 1

  Carlisle Circus, Belfast, 1

  Carrick Head Social Club, Belfast, 1

  Carrickfergus, 1, 2

  Carrigan Head (fruit boat), 1

  Carron, Owen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Carson, Edward, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Carson’s Army (later, Ulster Volunteer Force), 1, 2

  Casement Park, Belfast, 1, 2

  Casey, Tommy, 1

  Castlereagh hills, 1, 2

  Castlereagh Road, Belfast, 1

  Castlereagh RUC station, 1, 2, 3

  Castro, Fidel, 1

  Cavehill Road, Belfast, 1, 2

  Channon, Paul, 1

  Charles I, 1

  Cheyne Walk conference (1972), 1, 2

  Chichester-Clark, James, 1, 2, 3

  Chile, 1

  Christian Brothers, 1, 2

  Churchill, Winston, 1

  civil rights movement, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Clare, 1

  Clarke, Cleaky, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n

  Clarke, Tombo, 1

  Claudia cargo vessel, 1

  Clinton, William Jefferson (Bill), 1, 2, 3

  Clonard district, Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Clonard monastery, 1, 2, 3, 4n

  Clontibret, 1

  Coagh, 1

  Coalisland, 1, 2, 3

  Coldstream Guards, 1n

  Coleraine, 1, 2

  College Square, Belfast, 1, 2

  Collins, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Combat (later, Purple Standard), 1, 2n

  Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Combined Loyalist Political Alliance (CLPA), 1

  Commons, House of, see Westminster parliament Concannon, Don, 1, 2n

  Congo, 1

  Conlon, Gerry, 1

  Conlon, Giuseppe, 1, 2n, 3

  Connolly, James, 1, 2

  Connolly House, Belfast, 1

  Connolly RUC station, 1

  Conservative Party and governments, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Constitutional Convention (1975), 1

  Conway Street, Belfast, 1

  Coogan, Tim Pat, 1, 2n, 3

  Cookstown, 1

  Cooley mountains, 1

  Cork, County, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Corn Market, Belfast, 1n

  Corporation Street, Belfast, 1

  Cosy Bar, Belfast, 1

  Coughlan, Tony, 1

  Council of Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Covenanters, 1

  Cox, Graham, 1

  Coyle, Curly, 1

  Cracked Cup, Belfast, 1, 2

  Craig, Bill, 1

  Craig, Colin, 1

  Craig, James, 1

  Craigavon, Lord, 1

  Crawford, Patrick (Paddy Joe), plate, 1

  Crossan, Francis, 1

  Crossan, Terry, 1

  Crossmaglen, 1, 2

  Crowe, Alec, 1

  Crumlin Road prison, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

  Cullingtree Road, Belfast, 1, 2

  Cumann na gCailini (IRA youth wing for girls), 1

  Cumann na mBan (IRA women’s branch), 1, 2

  Curragh Camp, 1

  Curtis, Gunner Robert, 1

  Cushendall, 1

  Cyprus, 1

  Cyprus Street, Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Dail Eireann, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Daily Mail, 1

  Dallas, Leslie, 1

  Daly, Dr Edward (Eddie), 1, 2, 3

  Daly, James, 1

  Daly, Miriam, 1


  Dark, Willie, 1

  Davey, John Joe, 1, 2

  Dawe, Gerald, 1

  Dawson, Eddie, 1

  De La Salle boys’ home, 1, 2

  Dean Stanley Street bombing, 1

  Defenders, 1, 2

  Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Dempsey, Dipper, 1

  Dempsey, Jimmy, 1, 2

  Derry, County, and Derry City, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

  Devenney, Deborah, 1

  Devenport, Mark, 1

  Devine, Michael, 1

  Devlin, Bernadette, see McAliskey, Bernadette

  Devlin, Paddy, 1, 2n, 3, 4

  Diplock, Lord Kenneth, 1n

  Diplock courts, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5

  Direct Rule, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Divis Flats, Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5

  Divis Street, Belfast, plate, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Divis Tower, Belfast, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6

  Dixon, Geordie, 1

  Doherty, Hugh, 1

  Doherty, Pat (‘Smiler’), 1, 2, 3

  Donacloney, Dublin, 1

  Donaghadee, 1

  Donaldson, Denis, 1

  Donegal, County, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6

  Donegall Pass, 1

  Donegall Pass RUC station, 1

  Donegall Road, 1

  Donegall Street bombing, 1

  Dougan, Tommy, 1

  Douglas, David, 1

  Dover Street, Belfast, 1

  Down, County, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Downing Street, London, 1

  Downing Street Declaration (1993), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Drew Street, Belfast, 1

  Dromore, 1

  Droppin’ Well, Belfast, 1

  Drumcree, 1

  Drumm, Jimmy, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Drumm, Maire, 1, 2

  Dublin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Dublin bombing, plate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Dublin parliament, see Dail Eireann

  Duddy, Brendan, 1

  Dundalk, 1, 2, 3

  Dundalk Hospital, 1

  Dundonald Hospital, 1

  Dungannon, 1, 2

  Dungiven, 1

  Durban, 1

  Durkan, Mark, 1

  Eames, Archbishop Robin, 1, 2, 3

  East Belfast Methodist Mission, 1

  Easter Rising (1916), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Easter Rising Commemorations (1966), 1

  Eileen (sister-in-law of Seamus Wright), 1

  Eirigi, 1n

  Eksund (ship), 1, 2

  Elder, Raymond, 1

  Elizabeth I, 1

  Elizabeth II, 1, 2

  Elliot, Billy, 1

  Emmet, Robert, 1, 2n

  Empey, Reg, 1, 2, 3

  Engels, Friedrich, 1

  English Civil War, 1

  Enniskillen bombing, 1

  EOKA uprising, 1

  Ervine, Brian, 1

  Ervine, David, plates;

  early life, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  and UVF, and in joint

  UVF/PUP negotiations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24;

  in Long Kesh/The Maze, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  post-release, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and PUP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  death, 1, 2

  Ervine, Elizabeth, 1, 2

  Ervine, Jeanette, plate, 1, 2, 3

  Ervine, Walter, 1

  Europa hotel, Belfast, 1

  European parliament, 1

  Falls Road, Lower Falls, and Falls district, Belfast, plate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

  Fanum House, Belfast, 1

  Faul, Father Denis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Faulkner, Brian, 1, 2, 3

  Feakle, 1, 2, 3

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1n

  Feeney, Hugh, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  ‘Salon’ byline, 1

  Felsted arms raid, 1

  Fenian Rising (1867), 1

  Fenton, Joe, 1, 2

  Ferguson, Derek, 1

  Fermanagh, County, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Fermanagh–South Tyrone constituency, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Fernhill House, Belfast, 1, 2

  Fianna Eireann (IRA youth wing), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Fianna Fail, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Finaghy, 1n

  Fine Gael, 1, 2

  Finucane, Pat, 1

  Fitt, Gerry, 1

  Fitzgerald, Garret, 1, 2

  Fitzsimmons, Junior, 1, 2

  Four Square Laundry operation, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Fourth Home Rule Act, see Government of

  Ireland Act (1920), 1

  Fox, Bernard, 1

  Framework for the Future, 1, 2

  Free Wales Army, 1

  Freedom of Information requests, 1

  Freedom Struggle, 1

  French, Lord, 1

  French Revolution, 1, 2n

  Friedman, Milton, 1

  Fujimori, Alberto, 1

  Fulton, Mark, 1

  Fusco’s (fish and chip shop), 1

  Gaddafi, Muammar, 1, 2

  Gaelic Athletic Association, 1

  Gallipoli, 1

  Galsworthy, Sir Arthur, 1

  Gardai, 1, 2, 3;

  Special Branch, 1

  Gardiner, Lord, 1

  Garnet Street, 1

  Garvaghy Road, Portadown, 1, 2

  Garvey’s paint factory, Belfast, 1

  Germany, 1;

  First World War, 1;

  Nazi era, 1

  Getty Street, Belfast, 1

  Gibney, Jim (Short Strand), 1, 2

  Gibney, Jim (Sinn Fein), 1, 2

  Gilbraltar, 1, 2

  Gibson (Maze deputy governor), 1

  Gibson, Edward, 1

  Gibson, Ken, 1

  Gibson Street, Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Gillen, Frank, 1, 2

  Gillen, George, 1

  Girvan (prison officer), 1

  Gladstone, William, 1

  Glasgow, 1, 2

  Glen Road, Belfast, 1, 2

  Glengall Street, Belfast, 1, 2, 3

  Glentoran football team, 1

  Good Friday Agreement (1998), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Gould, Matilda, 1

  Goulding, Cathal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Government of Ireland Act (1920), 1, 2

  Graham, John ‘Bunter’, 1, 2, 3

  Graham, Mark, 1

  Grand Central Hotel, Belfast, bombing, 1

  Great Escape, The (film), 1

  Great Victoria Street, Belfast, 1

  Green, James, 1

  Green, Leo, 1

  Greenore, 1

  Greysteel, 1, 2, 3

  Groomsport, 1

  Grosvenor Grammar School. Belfast, 1

  Grosvenor Road, Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Grove Tavern, Belfast, 1

  Guevara, Che, 1

  Guildford pub bombings, 1n

  Hain, Peter, 1

  Hamilton, Davy, 1

  Hannahstown Hill, 1, 2n

  Hannaway, Alfie, 1

  Hannaway, Annie, 1

  Hannaway, Kevin, 1, 2n

  Hannaway, Liam, 1, 2, 3n

  Hannaway family, 1

  Harrogate Street, Belfast, 1

  Hartley, Tom, 1, 2n, 3

  Haughey, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Hayek, Friedrich, 1

  Heath, Edward (Ted), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Heatherington, Vincent (Vinty), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Heathrow airport, 1

  Heights Bar, Loughinisland, 1

  Henderson, Tommy, 1

  Hendron, Joe, 1

  Henry VII, 1

  Hickey, Eileen, 1, 2, 3

  Hickey, Mary, 1

  Hickey, Patsy, 1

  Hilditch
(Maze governor), 1, 2

  Hill, Paul, 1

  Hillsborough, 1

  Hillsborough courthouse, 1

  Hillsborough Deal, see Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)

  Hillsborough Road, 1

  Hitler, Adolf, 1

  Holroyd, Fred, 1n

  Holy Land, Belfast, 1

  Holywood, 1

  Holywood Barracks, 1, 2

  Holywood Road, Belfast, 1

  Hope, James, 1n

  Hopkinson, Michael, 1

  Horn Drive, Belfast, 1

  Howe, Sir Geoffrey, 1

  Howell, Ted, 1, 2n

  Hudson, Chris, 1, 2, 3

  Hughes, Brendan, plates;

  birth, family and early life, 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  in Merchant Navy, 1, 2, 3;

  and IRA: early relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  in D Company, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  arms procurement, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  as Operations Officer and

  Quarter Master, 1, 2;

  on the run, 1, 2;

  in Long Kesh/The Maze, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  in GHQ roles after release, 1, 2;

  later life and failing health, 1, 2;

  relationship with Gerry Adams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

  Hughes, Brendan, junior, 1

  Hughes, Charlie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Hughes, Eoin, 1, 2

  Hughes, Francis, 1, 2, 3n

  Hughes, Josephine, 1, 2

  Hughes, Kevin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Hughes, Lily, 1, 2

  Hughes, Moya, 1

  Hughes, Terry, 1, 2

  Hughes tool factory, 1

  Hume, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Hume–Adams Document, 1, 2, 3

  Hunt, Baron John, 1

  Hunt Commission (1969), 1

  Hurson, Martin, 1, 2n

  Hutchinson, Billy, plate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  In the Name of the Father (film),1n

  Independence, War of, see Anglo-Irish War (1919–21)

  Independent Commission (for the

  disappeared), 1

  Independent Monitoring Commission, 1

  Independent Unionism, 1, 2

  International Red Cross (IRC), 1

  Independent Republican Party, 1, 2

  Innocent XI, Pope, 1n

  internment without trial, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Iraq, 1

  Irish Army, 1

  Irish Forum Report, 1

  Irish General Election (1981), 1, 2, 3

  Irish governments, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  Irish Home Rule, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5

  Irish Independence Party, 1

  Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n, 8, 9, 10, 11n, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Irish National Volunteers, 1n

  Irish News, 1