The school-house raid that ended in tragedy a century ago
The school-house raid that ended in tragedy a century ago An RIC raid on the dance left a 16-year-old boy dead. Joseph Doherty's grave at St Columba's, Ballerin. Reporter: '); '); On the night of December 28, 1920, a group of young people defied an 8pm curfew to hold a dance in a Ballerin school-house in County Derry. Liam Tunney tells the story of how the tip-off from a local insurance man, led to an RIC raid that had tragic consequences for one of the area's families. Sixteen-year-old Joseph Doherty was attending his first dance. He hadn't gone far, just about half a mile up the road t...
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