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	Encyclopedia: Jean McConville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean McConville was a Belfast mother of 10 who was abducted from her home and killed by the Provisional IRA in 1972.
		McConville, a Catholic convert, was buried beside her husband, Arthur, a British soldier who died from cancer, in Holy Trinity graveyard, Lisburn, County Antrim.
		Jean McConville, the 37 year old woman who was abducted from her Belfast home and murdered by the IRA in 1972, has been buried in Lisburn Co Antrim.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jean-McConville (1053 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean McConville agreed to be one of those spotters, but by all accounts she was not very good at her job and showed a too obvious interest in the IRA's affairs.
		The job of "disappearing" Jean McConville was given to "the unknowns" in a move that guaranteed that the story of what had really happened to her would be confined to the smallest number of IRA activists.
		McConville was taken down to a beach near Carlingford just across the County Down—County Louth border, where she was shot in the back of the head and her body buried in the sand.
	www.irelandsown.net /mcconville.html (1020 words)

	Sinn Fein/IRA made these people disappeared by torturing and then murdering so much for their Human Rights
		Jean McConville's remains were found on a County Louth beach The family of murdered Belfast woman Jean McConville have said they want the IRA to admit she was killed for no reason.
		Jean McConville is on the left of the picture with two of her children.
		Jean McConville was abducted from her west Belfast home in 1972, after she went to the aid of a fatally wounded British soldier outside her front door.
	www.iraatrocities.fsnet.co.uk /thedisappeared.htm (9981 words)

	Independent Catholic News
		Bishop Patrick Walsh was speaking on Saturday at the funeral of Jean McConville, 37, one of the so-called Disappeared.
		When we celebrated Mass on December 7th last for Jean's 30th anniversary, it was Advent, a season when the Church looks at the coming of Jesus in three ways in the past at Bethlehem, the present and in the future in hope and expectation for His coming again.
		Jean McConville and the other disappeared will forever stand in judgement on the shame and guilt of their murderers, as do the young men buried in the mausoleum outside Rome.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /jeanm.html (1594 words)

	Guardian \| 'Give me my mam'
		Jean McConville was interrogated and killed by the Provisional IRA and her body was never recovered.
		Jean's crime was to tend a wounded soldier who had fallen on her doorstep.
		In the eyes of the activists, Jean McConville was simply one of the little people, collateral damage in a war without victors, crushed under the great wheel of historic destiny.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3870150-103588,00.html (1631 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / IRA Victim Finally Laid to Rest After 31 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean McConville, the best-known of Northern Ireland's "Disappeared," was laid to rest by her family on Saturday, 31 years after the widowed mother-of-10 was abducted, shot and secretly buried by the Irish Republican Army.
		BELFAST (Reuters) - Jean McConville, the best-known of Northern Ireland's "Disappeared," was laid to rest by her family on Saturday, 31 years after the widowed mother-of-10 was abducted, shot and secretly buried by the Irish Republican Army.
		The recent discovery of McConville's remains on a lonely beach in the Irish Republic prompted the IRA to last week repeat an apology to the families of the Disappeared -- at least nine people spirited across the Irish border and killed in the 1970s.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/11/01/ira_victim_finally_laid_to_rest_after_31_years (496 words)

	Irish Times Article - McConville family hope remains are those of mother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The family of Mrs Jean McConville, the missing Belfast woman, said last night they hoped that the remains of a woman's body discovered on a beach in Co Louth yesterday were those of their mother.
		Mrs McConville's son, Michael (41), said at the scene that he hoped the remains were those of his mother.
		Mr McConville described the last 30 years as hell and said he had begun to think that his mother's grave would never be found.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2003/0828/3530574179HM1MCCONVILLE.html (688 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - DAUGHTER'S TRIBUTE 30YEARS AFTER IRA MURDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For Helen is the daughter of Jean McConville, a victim of a brutal IRA execution, one of the Disappeared.
		JEAN McConville was just 37 when she was abducted from her home by a 12-strong IRA gang on December 7, 1972.
		Jean shooed her frightened children to the back of the flat and slowly opened the door.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13573296&method=full&siteid=50143 (1773 words)

	An insight into Sinn Fein/I.R.A @ lol513.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean McConville was abducted from her home under the command of Gerry Adams by Sinn Fein/ IRA in front of her 10 screaming children.
		Jeans body was found in a shallow grave recently, she had four fingers chopped off, mant bones were broken from a vicious beating and she was then shot in the back of the head!
		As he lay bleeding on the pavement, Jean McConville came out of her house with a pillow, put it under his head and, as his life ebbed away, whispered a few prayers into the dying squaddie's ear.
	lol513.bravehost.com /lol513ira.html (1180 words)

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		Mrs McConville, a 39-year-old widowed mother of ten, was abducted by the IRA in Belfast in 1972.
		Jean McConville's children were placed in care after their mother's disappearance.
		Mrs McConville's son-in-law, Seamus McKendry said it was incredible that someone could pinpoint somewhere on a sand dune after all this time, as the car park had not there in 1972.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99ire/RTE_UPDATE_-_News_from_Ireland_-_31_May_1999 (1566 words)

	The Edge of England's Sword: Remember Jean McConville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		McConville took him into her home and cushioned his head as he died.
		I hope that this body is hers, and that for her family's sake Jean McConville can now at least be given a proper burial.
		McConville's manner of death and her bravery and compassion in life are powerful testaments to IRA cowardice and to the moral superiority of freedom loving people.
	www.folk.emich.edu /~tomlewis/jean.html (254 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean McConville, mother of 10, abducted and murdered by the IRA, who then hid evidence of their appalling deed for 30 years, was at peace...
		The IRA wrenched Jean from her flat, as her children screamed for mercy.
		Yesterday, Jean McConville was laid to rest - 31 long years after her murder.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=459770 (326 words)

	BBC NEWS \| N Ireland \| Son's appeal to find mother's body
		Michael McConville was speaking on the 30th anniversary of the abduction of his mother Jean from their west Belfast home.
		Jean McConville, one of the so-called Disappeared, was accused of being an Army informer, a claim strenuously denied by her family.
		Jean McConville helped a soldier who lay injured outside her home during a gun battle with the IRA.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/2555855.stm (400 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| McConville inquest adjourned
		The inquest into the death of one of the so-called Disappeared, Jean McConville, has been adjourned for six weeks at the request of her family.
		Mrs McConville, 37, was abducted and murdered by the IRA after she went to the aid of a fatally wounded British soldier outside her front door in 1974.
		Mrs McConville was buried beside her husband in Lisburn, County Antrim in November.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/3512597.stm (406 words)

	Guardian \| Family feud over IRA victim's burial
		The family of Jean McConville, the young widow kidnapped, killed and buried in secret by the IRA in 1972, have split over how to lay their mother to rest.
		McKendry revealed that as far back as two years ago when it was still uncertain that Jean McConville's remains would be found, a west Belfast priest implored Helen not to have a public funeral for her mother.
		Just before Christmas 1972 Jean McConville was dragged screaming from her bath by eight IRA men and four women while her children looked on in horror.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4782876-103588,00.html (618 words)

	Independent on Sunday, The: Jean McConville, `disappeared' by the IRA in 1972, is brought home to (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The second funeral of IRA victim Jean McConville took place in autumnal sunshine in west Belfast yesterday, with a poignant and dignified final farewell in a packed Falls Road Catholic church.
		She was taken, trussed in a carpet or whatever, in the boot of a car or the back of a van the 40 miles to her grave.
		When the cortege reached Divis it halted, the six McConville brothers who bore the coffin standing unmoving for a minute's silence close to the spot where their mother was taken from them.
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_200311/ai_n12749517 (1005 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| IRA 'sorry' for Disappeared
		Its statement on Friday follows confirmation that the remains found recently on a beach in the Irish Republic were those of Belfast woman Jean McConville.
		Mrs McConville, 37, was abducted and murdered by the IRA after she went to the aid of a fatally wounded British soldier outside her front door.
		In a statement at the time of the discovery of the remains, the IRA said it was hopeful this would "bring closure to the trauma and suffering endured by the McConville family".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/3210967.stm (538 words)

	Body on beach had 'bullet wound to head'
		Police in the Republic of Ireland have confirmed that the body of a woman found on a Co Louth beach died from a bullet wound to the head.
		Speculation mounted on Thursday that the body was that of disappeared Belfast mother, Jean McConville, 37, who was abducted from her Belfast home in 1972.
		Jean McConville was one of 10 so-called 'Disappeared' who were abducted by the IRA, executed and secretly buried in the early 1970's.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=19485 (390 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Body may be that of mother murdered by IRA 30 years ago
		Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was snatched from her west Belfast home in 1972, after she went to the aid of a fatally wounded soldier outside her front door.
		Mrs McConville’s daughter, Helen McKendry, said she was praying that this was the news she had waited for years to hear, but was waiting for official confirmation about what exactly had been found.
		The IRA are thought to have murdered more than 100 alleged informers in the past 30 years but Mrs McConville’s family have always strongly denied that she was passing information.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=945052003 (795 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		The remains of Jean McConville, a mother of 10, were thought to have been found by a walker less than 500 yards from a stretch of beach in the Irish Republic which was searched by the Garda four years ago following a tip-off from the IRA.
		Mrs McConville was abducted and murdered in 1972 after she comforted a British soldier who had been shot and wounded outside her door in Belfast.
		While the McConville family will have to wait until DNA tests confirm that the body is that of their mother, Michael McConville, 41, one of five sons to visit the spot yesterday, said there were "too many coincidences for it not to be her".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/28/nbody28.xml (757 words)

	RTE News - Jean McConville's remains in Antrim
		The remains of Jean McConville have arrived at her son Michael's house at Crumlin in Co Antrim, 15 miles from Belfast, where her funeral will be held on Saturday.
		Earlier, the McConville family received their mother's remains in Dublin when they were released by the Coroner's Office.
		The 37-year-old mother of ten from West Belfast was shot in 1972 after IRA gunmen seized her at the front door of her home in the Divis flats area of West Belfast.
	www.rte.ie /news/2003/1030/mcconville.html (339 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mother killed by IRA in 1972 is buried in Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The nine surviving children of Jean McConville walked behind her coffin through the streets of Roman Catholic west Belfast.
		After McConville disappeared, her 10 children were placed in separate foster homes.
		In 1999, the IRA conceded it was responsible for killing and McConville and eight others suspected of passing information on IRA operations — an accusation the McConville family vehemently denies.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-11-01-ira_x.htm (399 words)

	'Disappeared' victim confirmed as Jean McConville
		Police in the Republic of Ireland have confirmed that the body of a woman found on a Co Louth beach in August is that of "disappeared" Belfast woman Jean McConville.
		Mrs McConville, 37, was abducted from her Belfast home in 1972 after coming to the aid of a British soldier who had been shot outside her front door.
		Mrs McConville was one of 10 so-called 'Disappeared' who were abducted by the IRA, executed and secretly buried in the early 1970's.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=21428 (306 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Northern Ireland - IRA's role in the hunt for bodies is criticised
		The mother of ten is one of the so-called "Disappeared", who were murdered by the Provisional IRA and secretly buried during the 1970s.
		But Mrs McConville’s son-in-law, Seamus McKendry, insisted that any detail passed on by the IRA was worthless.
		Relatives of Mrs McConville believe remains discovered by a man walking with his children at Shilling Hill beach, near Dundalk, on Wednesday are those of the widow.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?id=954852003&tid=150 (599 words)

	IRA murder victim has her funeral, 31 years later - www.smh.com.au
		Jean McConville, the best-known of Northern Ireland's "disappeared", was laid to rest by her family at the weekend, 31 years after the widowed mother of 10 was abducted, shot and buried by the Irish Republican Army.
		The recent discovery of Mrs McConville's remains on a lonely beach in the Irish Republic prompted the IRA to last week repeat an apology to the families of the disappeared - at least nine people spirited across the Irish border and killed in the 1970s.
		Monsignor Toner was speaking at a funeral Mass in west Belfast before Mrs McConville's burial on Saturday alongside her husband, who died a few months before her abduction, in the nearby city of Lisburn.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/02/1067708065027.html?from=storyrhs (409 words)

	RTE News - McConville inquest adjourned until April
		The inquest into the death of the IRA victim, Jean McConville, was opened in Dundalk this morning and has been adjourned until 5 April.
		The McConville family also requested permission to be allowed to carry out a forensic examination of a bullet, but Louth County Coroner Ronan Maguire said that request would have to be directed to the garda authorities.
		The coroner said he would try to address issues of concern to the McConville family, such as if their mother had always been buried at Shelling Hill beach and if she had been abused before her death.
	www.rte.ie /news/2004/0223/mcconvillej.html (203 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mrs McConville`s body was discovered in a shallow grave on Shelling Hill beach in Co Louth last August, 31 years after she was abducted by an IRA gang.
		And Jean McConville's remains weren't 'given up', they were found despite the attempts by her killers to evade prosecution.
		The McConvilles are every bit as entitled to justice as the Finucanes, McBrides or the Bloody Sunday families.
	u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=42882&pt=n (1039 words)

	Friends of Ulster- USA - The IRA, the US, St. Patricks Day and Sanctions
		The McConville case also encapsulated, in the public imagination, the ordeals undergone by the victims before they were eventually killed and the suffering endured since by their relatives and loved ones.
		An IRA gang of eight men and four women dragged Jean McConville from the bathroom of her maisonette in Belfast's Divis flats and, ignoring the screams of her children, bundled her into a car.
		Last week, the Sunday Independent argued strongly that what was done to Jean McConville and the rest of the Disappeared, including Gareth O'Connor, was a war crime on a par with anything in Latin America, and made the case for a public enquiry to bring victims' families long overdue justice.
	www.ulsterflash.iofm.net /irarecord.htm (17591 words)

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