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Loyalist memorial, Newtownards Rd., East Belfast, 2012. Memorial garden commemorating James McCurrie Robert Neill, commissioned by East Belfast Cultural and Historical Society; stone to front: '27th/28th June 1970 That night in a planned and unprovoked attack, the Provisional IRA introduced guns on to the streets of East Belfast from the sanctuary of St Matthews chapel and surrounding area They murdered James (Jimmy McCurrie and Robert (Ginger) Neil also wounding 28 other men, women and children'; stone to rear: 'Murder Most Foul – 27th/28th June 1970. As I look back in my mind’s eye/I see a night that makes me cry/That Saturday started like any day/People shopping and children at play//Later that night at darkness fell/PIRA opened up like something from hell/Man, woman and child had to dive/It’s a wonder so many escaped alive/A woman was shot at Wolff Street/Blood on the ground, all around her feet/As the ambulance arrived to take her away/A wounded man inside was heard to pray/From St. Matthew’s Chapel with murderous intent/PIRA kept firing till every bullet was spent/From the tower where the bells kept their silent peel/It’s from here PIRA shot dead Bobby Neill/Making his way home in a hurry/PIRA shot dead Jimmy McCurrie/As he lay at the Beechfield School Gate/The wounded kept rising till it reached twenty-eight/When I look back in the light of day/There can be no compromise with the IRA/The date should be burned in our brain/East Belfast cannot let this happen again – W. J. Magee – 2002'plaques to Tommy Reid, Danny Lougihns, Sandy Gould, and Billy Kincaid, killed elsewhere in Belfast on or around the same dates. Loyalist
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