The Troubles in Crumlin (Antrim)
- The Troubles in Crumlin (Antrim)
The Troubles in Crumlin recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Crumlin, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Incidents in Crumlin during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:
1972
*5 February 1972 - Phelim Grant and Charles McCann, both Catholic members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were killed in a premature explosion while placing a bomb (50lb of gelignite) on a barge, Lough Neagh, near Crumlin. It was apparently intended to sink several sand barges moored at Ballyginniff, near Crumlin. The IRA said they were volunteers and they are listed on the republican roll of honour as members of the Provisional IRA North Antrim Brigade.
References
* [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/ NI Conflict Archive on the Internet]
*McKittrick, D, Kelters, S, Feeney, B and Thornton, C. "Lost Lives". Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999, p150 and 151.
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