2016年12月26日 · Amongst the litany of heavy blows inflicted by the British Army on the Provisional IRA during the early 1970’s – when the war really was IRA vs British military – one of the most severe was the shooting dead of Ballymurphy IRA leader Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna in August 1973.

2018年11月30日 · The Official IRA initially claimed they were responsible – but since then have denied any involvement. It is now widely accepted that both men were killed by an undercover unit of the British army. 19-year-old Patrick Mulvenna died instantly in the attack. Jim Bryson, aged 25, died from his injuries three weeks later on September 22.

2015年7月4日 · Local legend had it that the pair were killed by the Official IRA but this account makes it clear that the killers were undercover soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets regiment hidden in the roof space of a house overlooking the Bullring in Ballymurphy.

The ambush in which IRA Volunteers Paddy Mulvenna and Jim Bryson were assassinated by the British Army took place 49 years ago this week. An account of their lives cut short, based on a report by Relatives for Justice.

2013年1月15日 · There were very fews things that the Provisional IRA in Belfast and the British Army would agree about in August 1973 but on one issue they had no argument: James Emerson Bryson was a very dangerous character indeed. “A controlled psychopath”, is how an IRA colleague described Bryson to one of the authors in 2001.

Patrick Mulvenna (known as Paddy), James Bryson (known as Jim), Jim “Bimbo” O’Rawe and Frank Dufy were taking part in a Provisional IRA operation at the time of the shooting and with the exception of Jim Bryson (who was the driver) were visibly armed when they were shot at.

2013年1月16日 · The piece revises an important part of the Provisional IRA’s own historical narrative and includes an internal British Army account of the killing of one of the IRA’s most famous characters in Belfast, Jim Bryson.

Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna were IRA volunteers shot during a gun battle from a concealed British Army observation post of The Royal Green Jackets on the Ballymurphy Road, Bryson later died in hospital on the 22nd of September 1973.

2008年9月25日 · A PLAQUE to the memory of IRA Volunteers Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna was unveiled in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, at the weekend by Sinn Féin Minister Gerry Kelly, a cousin of Patrick Mulvenna’s.

1973年2月23日 · The prisoner, James Bryson, 24 years old, seized a gun from a lone prison officer escorting him and three other prisoners through a tunnel linking Crumlin Road Prison to the courthouse across the...