Nuala O’Loan
Republican mural, Springfield Rd., Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 2011. ‘Springhill Westrock Massacre Belfast’s Bloody
Sunday On the 9th July 1972 the British Army murdered 5 Irish citizens and severely wounded 2 others It is time for the
truth’; portraits of the dead. Photo: Tony Crowley. For almost 54 years the families of five people who were shot dead around 10pm on Sunday, July 9, 1972, have fought to establish what happened that day. A short IRA ceasefire had just ended. Soldiers were stationed in Corry’s Timber Yard in Belfast’s Springhill/Westrock area. An inquest a year later returned an open verdict.…
