Qualla: Annette McGavigan https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/annette-mcgavigan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Annette McGavigan https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan Annette McGavigan: Introduction https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan/ Photo credit FDW777, CC BY-SA 4.0. She was still in her school uniform. She was holding an ice cream. The rioting in the Little Diamond had been winding down for an hour or so by the time Annette McGavigan and her friends went looking for rubber bullets to add to their growing collection of riot souvenirs. It was 6 September 1971. She had turned fourteen in June. At the corner of Blucher Street and Westland Street, in the Catholic Bogside in Derry, she was shot in the back of the head. The bullet's path through the streets of a city already at war made her, after three years of conflict, the one hundredth civilian killed in the Troubles. No one has ever been charged.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/annette-mcgavigan-wp/gcfb-annette-mcgavigan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Annette McGavigan: A Daughter of the Bogside https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan/ Photo credit FDW777, CC BY-SA 4.0. Annette lived with her parents, four brothers, and two sisters in Drumcliffe Avenue, a small Bogside street built when Derry's nationalist majority had been packed into a few wards by gerrymander. She attended St Cecilia's College and, by her family's accounts, wanted to be a nur...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/annette-mcgavigan-wp/gcfb-annette-mcgavigan-a-daughter-of-the-bogside.mp3 0:06 2 full Annette McGavigan: Six O'Clock in the Evening https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan/ Photo credit FDW777, CC BY-SA 4.0. At about six in the evening the streets had quieted and Annette stood with friends. British soldiers were positioned a short distance away, in the grounds of the old post office between the Little Diamond and Frederick Street, where they had been confronting youths on Fahan Stree...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/annette-mcgavigan-wp/gcfb-annette-mcgavigan-six-oclock-in-the-evening.mp3 0:06 3 full Annette McGavigan: The Telephone Game https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan/ Photo credit FDW777, CC BY-SA 4.0. Her sister May, sent by their mother to buy fruit at a local shop, met a friend on the way home. A wee girl's been shot, the friend told her. Without knowing she was talking about her own sister, May carried the news home to her mother, who said, God help that poor girl and her m...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/annette-mcgavigan-wp/gcfb-annette-mcgavigan-the-telephone-game.mp3 0:06 4 full Annette McGavigan: The Mural and the Butterfly https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan/ Photo credit FDW777, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 1 September 1999, twenty-eight years and a few days after she died, the Bogside Artists unveiled a mural on the gable wall of a maisonette at the corner of Lecky Road and Westland Street, near Free Derry Corner. They called it The Death of Innocence. Annette stands in her scho...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/annette-mcgavigan-wp/gcfb-annette-mcgavigan-the-mural-and-the-butterfly.mp3 0:06 5 full Annette McGavigan: What Is Still Owed https://qualla.com/annette-mcgavigan/ Photo credit FDW777, CC BY-SA 4.0. There is a way of writing about civilian deaths in conflicts that turns the dead into statistics or into symbols. Annette McGavigan was both, eventually, but she was also a girl who liked drawing, who collected rubber bullets without quite knowing why, who would have been almost ...

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