Award-winning play ‘Ballymurphy: The Aftermath’ – Tickets available now

Families of victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre

It has been called West Belfast's Bloody Sunday. Over 36 hours, between 9 and 11 August 1971, six months before Bloody Sunday in Derry, the Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 civilians in the West Belfast housing estate of Ballymurphy. Those who were killed included local priest Fr Hugh Mullan and a 45-year-old mother of 8 children, Joan Connolly – Marie-Louise Muir’s Arts Extra, BBC

'There were cameras in Derry on Bloody Sunday; there were no cameras in Ballymurphy'

– Playwright Brenda Murphy

STRONG PERFORMANCES from the actors leave the audience with nowhere to hide as it delivers unrelenting, emotionally-charged scene after scene.

The unconventional lay-out of the stages – with the rifle-carrying British Army paratroopers moving through the audience – gives a sense of the fear people must have experienced at the time.

'Ballymurphy: The Aftermath', written by Brenda Murphy and directed by Pam Brighton, received the Aisling Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Culture.

It returns to Conway Mill for one week only in August.

Conway Mill – 5^th to 12^th August

Doors open 7:30 (shows start 8pm)

Saturday 11^th – Matinee 2pm

Tickets £10

On sale at

Feile Offices 90313440

Kolor Master 90616552

Frank Cahill Resource Centre 90585755

Conway Education Centre 90248543

Ballymurphy Massacre Annual March of Truth

Sunday 12^th August