“It seemed as if the heat itself had encouraged the nightly rioting in Belfast. The tiny, overcrowded houses spilt their human contents into the streets to continue ongoing battles and keep up the avenging of insults the other side was supposed to have perpetrated with a succession of stonings, burnings and looting.The riots went on through July and August, coming to an end finally after three days of heavy rain that flooded some of the poorest areas of the city and left crops damaged throughout... the countryside. The newspapers put the official number of deaths at thirty, but the personal stories that reached Armagh to be passed on to the forge made it clear the actual number had to be much higher. In addition to the deaths, hundreds had been injured, many of them seriously.‘How is she, Mary? Is she going to stay in Belfast?’ Rose asked, when one damp and misty September morning, her friend appeared at her door. ‘No, she says she can’t bear the sight o’ the place, though the neighbours has been kind.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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