The Milltown Cemetery attack took place on 16 March 1988 at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the large funeral of three Provisional IRA members killed in Gibraltar, an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, Michael Stone, attacked the mourners with hand grenades and pistols. He had learned there would be no police or armed IRA members at the cemetery. As Stone then ran towards the nearby motorway, a large crowd chased him and he continued shooting and throwing grenades. Some of the crowd caught Stone and beat him, but he was rescued by the police and arrested. Three people were killed and more than 60 wounded.
The funerals, minutes before the attack
The republican plot at Milltown Cemetery, Michael Stone's target
A memorial in Milltown Cemetery to the 'Gibraltar Three' and to the three men killed in the attack on their funeral
Milltown Cemetery is a large cemetery in west Belfast, Northern Ireland. It lies within the townland of Ballymurphy, between Falls Road and the M1 motorway.
The entrance to Milltown Cemetery: 546 Falls Road
Milltown Cemetery
New Republican Plot
New Republican Plot: marker for a grave with four burials, surrounded by private memorials to those interred here
