Qualla: Ballymurphy Massacre https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:20 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/y/ballymurphy-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ballymurphy Massacre https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre Ballymurphy Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre/ Photo credit Keresaspa, CC BY-SA 3.0. Francis Quinn was nineteen years old. He was shot while going to the aid of a wounded man. Father Hugh Mullan was a Catholic priest; he was shot while waving a white cloth and trying to reach an injured person. Daniel Teggart, forty-four, was shot fourteen times. Most of the bullets entered his back, apparently as he lay on the ground already wounded. Between the evening of August 9 and the morning of August 11, 1971, soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment killed eleven civilians in the Ballymurphy district of west Belfast. It would take half a century for a court to say what their families had always known: every one of them was innocent.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/y/ballymurphy-massacre-wp/gcey-ballymurphy-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballymurphy Massacre: Operation Demetrius https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre/ Photo credit Keresaspa, CC BY-SA 3.0. The killings occurred during Operation Demetrius, the British Army's mass arrest of suspected IRA members launched on the morning of August 9, 1971. The operation was chaotic and driven by poor intelligence. Many of those arrested had no paramilitary connections at all. By focusi...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/y/ballymurphy-massacre-wp/gcey-ballymurphy-massacre-operation-demetrius.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballymurphy Massacre: Thirty-Six Hours https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre/ Photo credit Keresaspa, CC BY-SA 3.0. Six civilians were killed on August 9 alone. Joseph Murphy, forty-one, was shot as he stood opposite the army base. Joan Connolly, a mother of eight, was also killed that evening. On August 10, Edward Doherty, twenty-eight, was shot while walking along Whiterock Road. On August 1...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/y/ballymurphy-massacre-wp/gcey-ballymurphy-massacre-thirty-six-hours.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballymurphy Massacre: Decades of Denial https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre/ Photo credit Keresaspa, CC BY-SA 3.0. The initial 1972 inquests returned open verdicts on all the killings, effectively leaving the question of responsibility unanswered. For decades, the British Army maintained that soldiers had come under fire from the IRA and returned fire at identified targets. The families of th...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/y/ballymurphy-massacre-wp/gcey-ballymurphy-massacre-decades-of-denial.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballymurphy Massacre: Vindication https://qualla.com/ballymurphy-massacre/ Photo credit Keresaspa, CC BY-SA 3.0. On May 11, 2021, the coroner delivered findings that the families had waited a lifetime to hear: all ten people shot dead were entirely innocent, and the use of lethal force by the British Army was 'not justified.' The coroner noted that the investigation had been hampered by an ...

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