`."System- "Systemgl܉_ze-"System--@Times New Roman---@Times New Roman--------- 22 q`cBelfast Riots in July 1920       ---  2 q2c  @Times New Roman--- 12 `cIntroduction from Chronol       2 7cogy   2 Xc  --- 2 `OcOn the morning of the 21st July, members of Belfast Protestant Association put                       2 `Ocup posters on gates of Queens Island calling for meeting of all Unionist and                   =2 `!cProtestant workers at lunchtime.          2 hc   2 mc  F2 r'cNearly 5,000 meet and afterwards go on             (2 `crampage attacking C       #2 catholic workers.      2 vc   2 yc  O2 ~-cClothes are torn of potential victims to see              I2 `)cif they are wearing any Catholic emblems.           2 c   2 c  :2 cSome try to escape by swimming        2 !`Rcthe Musgrave Channel but are pelted by nuts, bolts, rivets, etc. (called 'Belfast                    2 6` cconfetti').   2 6c   2 6c  /2 6cMost Catholics and socia       ;2 6{ clists are removed from yards by         ---@Times New Roman------ 2 L` cafternoon.    2 Lc   2 Lc  X2 L3cAt least 20 men have to receive hospital treatment.             2 LKc   2 LPc ---  2 LUc ---  2 LZc  --- |2 h`KcAfter the expulsions from the shipyards, Catholic workers are ejected from                  2 }`Mcother industrial sites in the city including Sirocco Works, Musgraves, Combe                      X2 `3cBarbours, Mackies Foundary and several linen mills.            2 c  ,2 cThe number of workers        2 `Pcexpelled was in the region of 10,000 including several hundred female workers.                       z2 `JcIncluding dependants, this means that almost half of the Belfasts 93,000                    --- 22 `cCatholics would have been        (2 8cdirectly affected.    ---  2 c  ---  2 `cI v2 fGcn the ensuing days of riots many people are killed. Hopkinson says 13;                     |2 `KcMacardle says 17 and Phoenix says 18. McDermott also says 18 made up of 10                       }2 `LcCatholics and 8 Protestants. Parkinson names 21 people as being killed with                      ------ 2 /` cagain approxi     [2 /5cmately equal numbers of Catholics and Protestants.             ---  2 /sc  --- 2 L`NcPutting together the names given in various sources (including OHalpin and                     @Times New Roman------------------------ Y2 a`4cCorrin), it can be said that, in the period from 21              --- 2 \cst---  2 ac  2 acto 25  --- 2 \cth---  2 a"c  )2 a'cJune 1920, at least       2 w`ctwenty    2 wc- >2 w"cone people were killed or fatally          82 wcwounded in Belfast. Ten were          w2 `HcCatholics and eleven were Protestants. Catholics were a quarter of the                2 `Scpopulation of Belfast at this time. As to who was responsible for the killings, it                  --- v2 `Gcwould seem that most of the deceased were killed by the British Army.                 ---  2 c  --- 2 `QcDuring these riots, hundreds of (mostly Catholic) families are driven from their                     2 `chomes.   2 c    2 `c   2 ec  --------- 2 !` cMore Detail  ---  2 !c  --- ,2 =`cOnce word reached near          2 =c- Y2 =$4cby Catholic areas of the expulsions, trams carrying               V2 R`2cProtestant workers are attacked near Short Strand.                 2 Rc   2 Rc  22 RcProtestant mobs gather nea         2 Rcr   q2 h`DcDonegall Pass and riots ensue on Cromac St. with police intervening.                    2 hsc   2 hxc  2 h}cGunfire    22 }`cbreaks out in the evening.          2 }*c   2 }/c   2 }4c   2 `NcA Catholic, Margaret Noade (27), on her way to visit her ill mother in Cromac                    --------- F2 `'cSt is shot by an RIC bullet and killed.            2 zc   2 }c  52 cIn the early evening of the           2 Kc21 --- 2 _cst--- 2 g c, crowds of      w2 `Hcangry Shankill shipyard workers (who were stoned on their way home from                  2 `Qcwork) gathered on the streets near the Falls and Catholics mobs came out to face                      2 `cthem.   2 c   2 c  p2 CcThe military intervened and two Catholics were shot dead by the BA                   2 c   2 c  "Arial--ccbbaa