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Shoot-to-Kill: Gervaise McKerr, by Eleanor McKerr (story details) CAIN Website

Story Title: Gervaise McKerr

Collection: Unfinished Business: State Killings (collection)
Organisation: Rolston, Bill. (individual compiler)

One account from a collection of personal accounts compiled by Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin. The accounts were given by relatives and friends of people who were killed by state forces in Northern Ireland.

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Title
 Shoot-to-Kill: Gervaise McKerr, by Eleanor McKerr (story details)
Description
 One account from a collection of personal accounts compiled by Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin. The accounts were given by relatives and friends of people who were killed by state forces in Northern Ireland.
Creator
 Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin
Source
 http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/docs/rolston00.htm#emck
Publisher
 Beyond the Pale Publications
Date
 2000
Relation
 Extracts from the book are available on the CAIN Web site:
Rolston, Bill., with Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/docs/rolston00.htm
Format
 Text
Language
 English
CAIN: Sutton's Index of Deaths: 11 November 1982
Story Title
 Gervaise McKerr
Story Available
 Not on-line. Story available in published book.
Story Format
 Text
Story Source
 Chapter 8, in:
Rolston, Bill., and Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
Interviewee Surname
 McKerr
Interviewee Forename(s)
 Eleanor
Interviewee Gender
 Female
Religion
 Catholic
Birth Country
 Northern Ireland
Victim 1
 Gervaise McKerr
Relationship Victim 1
 Wife
Status
 Civilian
Published Format
 Document
Themes/Topics Mentioned
 Killing; State Killing
Dates Mentioned
 11 November 1982
Organisations Mentioned
 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)
Specific Deaths Mentioned
 Gervaise McKerr (11 November 1982)

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CAIN: Sutton's Index of Deaths: 11 November 1982

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Title
 Unfinished Business: State Killings (collection)
Description
 Unfinished Business is a book containing a collection of stories that was compiled and published by Bill Rolston with Mairead Gilmartin.
Creator
 Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin
Subject
 Personal accounts related to killings by the state in Northern Ireland during the period of the conflict.
Publisher
 Beyond the Pale Publications.
Date
 2000
Relation
 The collection of stories is contained in the book:
Rolston, Bill., with Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
Format
 Book
Language
 English
Identifier
 ISBN 1 900960 09 5

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Title
 Rolston, Bill. (individual compiler)
Description
 Bill Rolston is an Emeritus Professor Of Sociology at Ulster University. He has written extensively about various aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict, including victims, and story-telling. He has also published books containing collections of personal accounts.
Creator
 Bill Rolston
Subject
 Personal accounts / stories related to the Northern Ireland conflict.
Date
 2014
Relation
 The CAIN Bibliography contains a list of most of Bill Rolston's publications. His books which contain personal accounts are:
Rolston, Bill., with Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
Rolston, Bill. (2011). Children of the Revolution: The lives of sons and daughters of activists in Northern Ireland. Derry: Guildhall Press.

Citation

Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin. (2000). Gervaise McKerr. Beyond the Pale Publications.
Accounts of the Conflict; Accessed: 22 November 2024 <http://k8s-accounts-01.ulster.ac.uk/repo24/index.php/items/show/2898>
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