Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris, the cofounder of the 1955 Guinness Book of Records (known since...
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Norris Dewar McWhirter CBE (12 August 1925 – 19 April 2004) was a British writer, political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television...
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McWhirter and Macwhirter, MacWhirter (also spelled McWherter and Macwherter, MacWherter) are Anglicisations of the Scottish Gaelic Mac an Chruiteir, meaning...
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Castle with Guinness World Records founders twin brothers Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter. The programme was a spin-off series from Blue Peter which had...
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Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955. The first edition topped...
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Marian Price (redirect from Marian McGinchey)
Marian Price (born 1954), also known by her married name as Marian McGlinchey, is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. Born into...
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Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional...
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joined an elite group within the IRA called "The Unknowns" commanded by Pat McClure.: 103–4 The Unknowns were tasked with various secretive activities and...
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his death in 1994, alongside Norris and (until his murder in 1975) Ross McWhirter, Fiona Kennedy and Cheryl Baker. From then on, hosting was taken over...
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other republican prisoners, including Tom McFeely, John Nixon, Sean McKenna, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger...
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Freedom (NAFF) by the Viscount De L'Isle, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter and John Gouriet. Ross McWhirter had drawn up a fifteen-point Charter of Rights...
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IRA gunmen assassinated political activist and television personality Ross McWhirter in Enfield Town, London. 6–12 December 1975: Balcombe Street siege:...
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gentler sex. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7734-6000-3. Ross McWhirter; Norris McWhirter (1972). Guinness Book of World Records. Sterling Publishing...
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McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1970). New Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives. p. 17. Retrieved 9 August 2016. Mcwhirter, Norris; McFarlan...
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387–35). 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those...
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Publishers. pp. 556–571. ISBN 1-56000-901-2. Andrew Sanders and F. Stuart Ross (January 2020). "The Canadian Dimension to the Northern Ireland Conflict"...
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Swithun's Day". Weather Online. Retrieved 23 May 2012. Norris and Ross McWhirter. Guinness Book of records (1973 ed.). p. 76. Andrew Godsell "Saint Swithin...
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of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican...
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A Guinness employee told Sir Hugh of two twin brothers, Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had opened a fact checking agency in London. Sir Hugh interviewed...
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addition to bombings, they carried out several assassination attempts. Ross McWhirter, a right wing politician who had offered a £50,000 reward for information...
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Swallow and was often frequented by celebrity diners. 27 November 1975: Ross McWhirter was shot at his home Village Road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Middlesex...
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James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa; 23 May 1950 – 21 March 2017) was an Irish republican politician and statesman...
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England and being implicated in the deaths of eight people including Ross McWhirter and Gordon Hamilton-Fairley. Keenan was sentenced to eighteen years...
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from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2018. McWhirter, Ross; McWhirter, Norris, eds. (1964). "Earliest successful manned satellite"....
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Guinness Book of Records co-founder and conservative political activist Ross McWhirter was assassinated; he had offered a £50,000 reward to anyone willing...
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William "Frenchie" Marchant Martin McBirney Jerry McCabe Robert McConnell Jean McConville Columba McVeigh Ross McWhirter Stephen Melrose Lord Mountbatten...
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William "Frenchie" Marchant Martin McBirney Jerry McCabe Robert McConnell Jean McConville Columba McVeigh Ross McWhirter Stephen Melrose Lord Mountbatten...
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Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most...
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Anthony McIntyre (born 27 June 1957) is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, writer and historian. On 27 February 1976, the IRA...
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Columba McVeigh (1956 – 1 November 1975) was a youth from Northern Ireland who was abducted and most likely murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican...
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