One of the worst cases of mass murder in Irish history may have been an attempt to terrorise Catholic middle classes into accepting the new Northern Ireland state, according to historian, Dr Éamon Phoenix.
PICTURED is Catherine Kitty Kennedy; 100 years ago, on February 13 1922, Catherine, at 15 years of age, was one of the victims of an act of unimaginable savagery committed by loyalists against Catholic children playing on Weaver Street in north Belfast.
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