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6 de jun. de 2024 · Secretary of State Merlyn Rees, met with Loyalist leaders in Stormont. Mr Rees said that he would not negotiate with the UWC. One thing that became clear was that the timing of the removal of barricades by the police was tactically wrong.
18 de jun. de 2024 · The years 1976 to 1979 under Roy Mason, Merlyn Rees' replacement as the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, were characterised by a falling death rate for many reasons, including a drop in loyalist violence (attributed to the absence of political initiatives under Mason), and a change in IRA tactics after its weakening during ...
- 1969-1997
- Military stalemate [1] [2]Ceasefire
30 de mai. de 2024 · In 1975, this protrusion on Northern Ireland’s southern border, roughly 20 miles across and home to an overwhelmingly Catholic population of about 30,000, was dubbed ‘bandit country’ by Merlyn Rees, then Northern Ireland Secretary, and the label stuck.
17 de jun. de 2024 · There followed a barren decade of British fatalism epitomised by Merlyn Rees, Roy Mason and Humphrey Atkins. This was perhaps the lowest period for what we used to call the ‘constitutional nationalists’, in my lifetime at least.
Há 2 dias · January 1975: 12 Terms to Peace Balcombe Street Gang strikes again. Dan Darnoco. Jun 25, 2024
Há 5 dias · Hugh Gaitskell - Wikipedia. Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963.
31 de mai. de 2024 · British forces were colluding with loyalists openly and in secret and had bombed Dublin and Monaghan in May, killing 33 people. That same month, the Sunningdale Executive collapsed after the British Labour Government of Harold Wilson and Direct Ruler Merlyn Rees capitulated to the so-called strike staged by the Ulster Workers’ Council.
