A letter the UVF sent to James Wray’s parents, mocking his murder. #BloodySunday50

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  1. They’re pissed off because they know reunification is coming and I’ve no doubt that as they wrote” it, it occurred to them about “if you’re unhappy living here why don’t you move to ‘Britain’ if you want to be British…

  2. Historically you had the pre-independence exploitative Anglo Irish, the post-independence prejudiced Unionists, the permanently exploited and victimised Gaelic/Catholic underclass, and an indifferent London too spineless to hold former two to account.

    Sadly I’d say there are people in Belfast to this day who would tweet that same letter. And London would still sit on its hands.

  3. Did the UVF verify this? Not that I know much about them but this strikes me as incredibly infantile for a purportedly serious organisation, in so much as you could call a terrorist organisation “serious”.

  4. “May Hell Roast Him”

    “Your son was a fucking bastard and a fenian cunt…”

    *”…he was full of hatred”*

    “Get out of your home *or be burned out*”

    **he was full of hatred**

    The irony would probably be lost on this chap unfortunately.

  5. The uvf is the special school for the ones not bright enough to get into the uda 🤣🤣
    🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

  6. Apropos of nothing, convicted murderer and UVF man Garfield Beattie is from round Loughgall and was actively murdering locals in the early 1970s. He wrote this letter in September 2020 to Cllr Denise Mullen, who was suing him for murdering her da.

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    >It has been brought to our attention you are taking High Court against Mr Gerald Beattie.
    >
    >This is nothing more than an act initiated by a personal vendetta.
    >
    >This will have ramifications and consequences. We will be unambiguous. There will most certainly be ramifications for the fragile Good Friday Agreement.
    >
    >There will be personal consequences for yourself and your immediate family.
    >
    >Therefore you are being strongly advised to think again and consider the long-term consequences for your own personal health
    >
    >Signed East Tyrone Ulster Volunteer Force

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    What a coincidence!

  7. “move south or west to the Free State” – head of UVF confirmed as a Donegal man. Lovely bit of inclusivity there, doubt that anyone else would have remembered

  8. Just imagine, it’s nighttime. The author of that letter has come home from work. He hangs up his coat and walks into his sitting room. His two children are playing on the carpet. His wife scuttles in and moves them out. She’s seen the look in his eye, he’s not to be distracted. He settles down at his table. Pours out a whiskey. He takes the cover off his typewriter. “Dear Mr and Mrs Wray”. He pauses… adds their Christian names. All the better to frighten them. To show them who’s boss. The typewriter clacks into the night. His wife goes to bed hoping he’ll fall asleep on the couch. She knows how he gets when he thinks of Taigs.

    The next morning he rises from the bed he drunkenly fell into three hours earlier. His wife pretends to sleep on. She hears him shuffling about and through squinted eyes watches him dress and pocket a letter. Moments later she hears the front door close.

    The author strides out onto the street. He passes three soldiers slowly balloon turning on patrol. “God bless”, he bellows, startling them. “Sure Paddy”, one of them calls back which enrages him. He doesn’t say anything though. He’s on a mission of his own. He’s going to do his part to protect Ulster by ensuring the Wrays know not everyone sympathises with them, the fucking bastard Taigs. Thinking they are as important as the real Northern Irish.

    He gets to the post box, admiring its fresh red paint. He posts his little sip of poison. His little slap in the face. To be delivered first class. He walks home thinking of how he has to do all this work to maintain his place in the world.

    It’s 2022. The author wakes up. He goes downstairs. The house is quiet. It’s only himself there. His children have moved away. One to Dublin of all places. His wife has gone, gladly unbeknownst to him, to her eternal reward.

    He turns on the TV. More bad news. It looks like a Sinn Feiner could be First Minister. The bastard Protocol is still in place. What is happening to his country? Next they’ll make him learn Irish. Was this what he marched and protested for. Is this why he attended his Orange lodge every Friday?

    He’s getting angrier the more he thinks of it. Another letter. The idea flashes to him. He stands up and moves to his typewriter. He rips off the cover. Suddenly, he coughs. A pain in his chest so savage that it knocks him onto his arse. He tries to stand but he can’t. He lies back, struggling to breathe. He hears a knocking sound, it’s his heels drumming on the floor. He tries another breath but his angry croak draws no air. His last thought is of how his spite and rage, his unlimited belligerence, his shouting, his sloganeering, his life entire, couldn’t stop the march of progress. He considers his life, his actions, and for the first time ever he prays fervently that there is no God waiting to judge him. It goes dark. He’s gone.

  9. “ulster is British” conveniently forgetting about cavan monaghan and donegal. Also says move west to the free state ie donegal. Which is in ulster… Jesus the ignorance and hypocrisy of the whole thing would make your head spin

  10. I grew up in Down and always disliked political extremes on either side but one things I’ll say is fuck me the unionists are so much worse and harder to listen to than the republicans. I don’t know if all the hate is a defence mechanism what with the republican/catholic community expected to become the majority over the next decade or so but I’ve always found them so much more hateful

  11. This is like loyalist bingo. Theres god save the queen, no surrender, Ulster is British, calling the south the Free State. All thats missing is Londonderry and Ulster says No.

  12. True scum and bigotry. And nowadays the lefty’s will put you in the same box as these animals if you don’t believe a man can magically transform into a woman, even if you respect their right to have any operation and be called whatever they want. Mad cunts.

  13. A united Ireland is coming and while I’m not necessarily for it or against it in general, I do look forward to thinking about people like the author of this letter having to process living under the tricolour.

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