On a bitterly cold December night in 1971, a bomb was placed in the doorway of the tiny Tramore Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As the fuse burned, friends and neighbors inside chattered happily to the owner of the family-run bar, Patrick McGurk, whose surname the bar was more commonly known by. Upstairs his wife Philomena and the couple’s only daughter Maria had just returned from confession at St. Patrick’s Church.
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