Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland (78 page)

Brendan Hughes comforts a woman wounded by grenade splinters in the attack on an IRA funeral in 1988 mounted by Loyalist Michael Stone.

Hughes in his Divis Tower flat with Boston College researcher Anthony McIntyre.

Barred from giving the oration at Hughes’s funeral, Gerry Adams briefly ‘lifts’ his coffin.

McGurk’s Bar, December 1971. One of the first UVF bombings after the break with Tara. Fifteen Catholics were killed in the blast, which was never admitted by the UVF.

Thirty-three people died and over 250 were wounded when the UVF sent car bombs into the centres of Dublin and Monaghan during the 1974 Loyalist strike against Sunningdale. Twenty-six were killed in Dublin in three explosions, fourteen of them, including twelve women, at Talbot Street above.

David Ervine (standing, far left) poses with Gusty Spence and fellow UVF internees in Long Kesh.

Gusty Spence ran the UVF compounds in Long Kesh like a British Army barracks, a sense of discipline that David Ervine relished. Here he reviews UVF internees parading the colours.

Gusty Spence, regarded as the founder of the modern UVF, poses with ‘Buck Alec’ Robinson, a Loyalist gunman from the 1920s who is believed to have assassinated Brendan Hughes’s great-uncle.

David Ervine and Billy Hutchinson after their election to the Northern Ireland Assembly following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Gerry Adams, a welcome presence at David Ervine’s funeral, commiserates with Ervine’s widow, Jeanette.

Ed Moloney was born in England. A former Northern Ireland editor of the
Irish Times
and
Sunday
Tribune
, he was named Irish Journalist of the Year in 1999. Apart from
A Secret History of the IRA
, he has written a biography of Ian Paisley. He now lives and works in New York.

Professor Thomas E. Hachey and Dr Robert K. O’Neill are the General Editors of the Boston College Center for Irish Programs: IRA/UVF project, of which
Voices from the Grave
is the inaugural publication.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE IRA

PAISLEY: FROM DEMAGOGUE TO DEMOCRAT?

First published in 2010
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