{"id":384585,"date":"2025-08-30T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384585\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:42:13","slug":"tullyvallen-massacre-50-years-on-families-have-behaved-with-quiet-dignity-theres-never-been-a-sense-of-bitterness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384585\/","title":{"rendered":"Tullyvallen massacre 50 years on: \u2018Families have behaved with quiet dignity \u2013 there&#8217;s never been a sense of bitterness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">IRA attack on rural Orange Hall which left five men fatally wounded and several others injured came during a \u2018very dark period\u2019 for Protestants in south Armagh\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The coffins of Tullyvallen Orange Hall victims James McKee, a retired farmer and his son Ronald are carried from the family farm at Castleblaney Road, Newtownhamilton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/24a193f1-0041-483c-880c-32a25be2a600.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The coffins of Tullyvallen Orange Hall victims James McKee, a retired farmer and his son Ronald are carried from the family farm at Castleblaney Road, Newtownhamilton<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Although it only lasted about 30 seconds, for those in the room it must have felt like an eternity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When the gunfire stopped in a rural Orange Hall 50 years ago on Monday, five men lay fatally wounded and seven more were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRA attack on rural Orange Hall which left five men fatally wounded and several others injured came during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6571,779,22306,1144,6413,6568,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-384585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-madden","9":"tag-armagh-news","10":"tag-ira","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-orange-order","13":"tag-the-troubles","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115116595278987625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}