Everyman

The Boys were Dead... (1986x4)

Air date: Feb 02, 1986

Ten years ago, in the New Year of 1976, Northern Ireland suffered one of the worst instances of terrorist violence since the Troubles began. On 4 January five Catholics from South Armagh were shot dead. Twenty-four hours later, as relatives of the murdered were appealing on television against retaliation, a minibus carrying local Protestant mill workers home was ambushed. Ten were killed. This moving film revisits the villages of Whitecross and Bessbrook on the tenth anniversary of the killings - and tells the remarkable story of a community still united by grief, where the transient headlines have become part of daily reality.