Dan O'Boyle
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Template:Use dmy dates Daniel O'Boyle (died November 1933) was a Catholic Irish publican murdered by Protestant loyalists in 1933.
This incident had been the first religiously motivated murder in Ireland since 1922, and initiated a series of violent acts between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists that ultimately led to the 1935 Belfast Riots.[1]
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- ↑ Bardon, Jonathan. A History of Ulster (New Updated Edition). Blackstaff Press. Belfast: 2005. p.539
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