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After almost 70 years, the murder of Patricia Curran casts a long shadow

Robert Campbell on March 25, 2015, 5:57 pm

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Magna est veritias et prevailabit (Great is Truth and it will prevail) —Cicero (?) (Photo: Belfast Telegraph, Patricia Curran at centre) In the early hours of 12 November 1952 the body of Patricia Curran, the daughter of a judge, was ‘discovered’ by her brother, Desmond, just off the driveway to the family home at The Glen, Whiteabbey. She had been murdered by being stabbed 37 times. Desmond on lifting her up thought that she breathed; she was brought by the …

The past is another country

Robert Campbell on March 22, 2015, 4:02 pm

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. —LP Hartley A recent post about the ‘Curragh Incident’ (here) surprised me by the number and content of the replies. It was a short piece about a single event, though one that seems to have made the British government realise that they could not impose ‘Home Rule’ on all of Ireland by force. Though often called a ‘Mutiny’, this is technically incorrect. I could have written at much greater …