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How an Unsolved British Army Massacre Led to Bloody Sunday and Inflamed The Troubles

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Filmmaker Callum Macrae’s eye-opening new documentary ‘The Ballymurphy Precedent’ examines the British Army’s 1971 massacre of 11 innocent Catholics in Northern Ireland.

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Dartmouth Films

SHEFFIELD, England — Joan Connolly was 45 years old and a loving mother to eight children when she died. Her final act was reaching out to help an injured teenage neighbor.

The young man had been shot in the west Belfast suburb of Ballymurphy on the first day of Britain’s 1971...

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