Riots in Belfast - July 10th to 17th.
Hopkinson says that sixteen Catholic are killed in Belfast and 216 Catholic homes destroyed in an extended reprisal for an ambush in Raglan St. in the week between July 10th and July 17th. McDermott says 12 killed and 100 wounded over the weekend. Macardle does not mention any attack on the RIC but says that on the day before hostilities were to cease Orange mobs and Special Constables attacked Catholic areas, 161 “houses of Catholics were burnt down; fifteen persons were killed and the number seriously injured and treated in hospital was sixty-eight. … Not a single house belonging to Protestants had been burnt.” Gallagher says 17 people were killed between 11th and 13th - 13 Catholics and 4 Protestants and the burning of 161 houses – all belonging to Catholics. Phoenix contrasts the situation in Belfast with the peaceful situation that the truce brought to the rest of the six counties and says that 15 people were killed and over 100 houses burnt on the eve of the truce.
In his detailed account of Belfast during this period, Parkinson gives considerable detail in the attack on the police tender on the 10th and notes that Constable Conlon was killed in the attack. He goes on to say that, within a week, over 20 people had lost their lives in the city, over 70 were injured and over 200 houses were destroyed. 16 were killed on the 10th, 11 of whom were Catholics. Most of the violence was in the Shankill-Falls area. The Catholics killed were: Alexander Hamilton (21); Henry Mullholland (49); James Lenaghan (48); Daniel Joseph Hughes (50); Frederick Craig (22); Bernard Monaghan (70); William Tierney (56); James McGuiness (35); Daniel Hughes (28); Patrick Hickland (46) and Patrick Devlin. The Protestants killed were: William Baxter (12); Ernst Park (also young); David McMullan (19); William Mullan (50) and Francis Robinson (65).
Parkinson goes on to note that while the Eleventh night was relatively quiet, there were still three fatalities: a 45 year old Protestant, William Brown; a 19 year old IRA man, James (Seamus) Ledlie and a young Catholic woman, Mary McGowan. Parkinson continues that “the Twelfth evening was pretty quiet, largely on account of the decision to keep curfew restrictions”. On the 13th, there were the funerals of those killed on the 10th. Parkinson says that, also on the 13th, there was disturbances in the Harding St. district with five people wounded and a Catholic woman, Maggie McKinney (26) was killed near her home in Balkan St. On the 14th, Parkinson continues, there was widespread disturbances with shootings, beatings and a bombing. A Protestant teenager, Margaret Walsh, was shot by a sniper in York St and a Catholic, Patrick McKeena, was shot outside his home in Lepper St. He goes on to say that sniping continued the following day (15th) in the York St. area and that a young Catholic, Bernard Mooney, was killed in a friend’s house in Lepper St. Thereafter, Parkinson says that “Most of Belfast enjoyed a prolonged period of comparative peace from mid-July”. In other words, Parkinson names 28 people who were killed, or subsequently died from wounds received, during the week following the 10th July in Belfast. Greenwood announced that the ‘B’ Specials are to be removed from the streets and the ‘A’ Specials are to be disarmed.