In the long history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, 1987 will be remembered as a year when some of the worst atrocities occurred as politicians questioned what peace dividend was resulting from the Anglo-Irish agreement signed two years earlier. On November 8, as crowds gathered at the cenotaph in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, for the town’s annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony, an IRA bomb exploded killing 11 people and injuring dozens more. The devastation of the tragedy was captured in a media interview by Gordon Wilson, who was later appointed a member of the Seanad, in which he described holding the hand of his dying daughter, Marie. The Enniskillen bombing is often seen as a turning point in the history of Northern Ireland, with unprecedented levels…

Source: The Times December 30, 2017 00:03 UTC