Belfast Pogrom Begins: Catholic Workers Expelled, July 21, 1920
The "Belfast Pogrom" begins two years of violence with the expulsion of thousands of Catholic shipyard, factory and linen mill workers from their jobs.
Date: July 21, 1920
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