On 13 February 1922, an unidentified person threw a bomb into Weaver Street, which was full of Catholic children at play, killing four children and two women. The bombing became a locus of political controversy between the British government, the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State and the government of Northern Ireland, and became the archetypal story of innocent Catholic lives taken by the intercommunal conflict in the six counties which became Northern Ireland in 1920‒22. This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of the role of this intercommunal conflict in Irish and British politics, using the Weaver Street bombing as a case study. This article analyses nationalist representation of the conflict as an orchestrated campaign against Catholics, ‘a pogrom’; unionist representation of the conflict as loyalist self-defence against the I.R.A.; and the British government's effort to publicly maintain neutrality in the conflict.

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1922 年贝尔法斯特韦弗街爆炸案：暴力、政治和记忆

1922 年 2 月 13 日，一名身份不明的人向韦弗街投掷了一枚炸弹，当时街上挤满了正在玩耍的天主教儿童，导致四名儿童和两名妇女死亡。这次爆炸事件成为英国政府、爱尔兰自由邦临时政府和北爱尔兰政府之间政治争议的焦点，并成为北爱尔兰六个县的部族间冲突夺走无辜天主教徒生命的典型故事1920-22 年。本文旨在以韦弗街爆炸事件为案例研究，帮助理解这种族群间冲突在爱尔兰和英国政治中的作用。本文分析了民族主义者将这场冲突描述为针对天主教徒的一场精心策划的运动，“一场大屠杀”；工会主义者将冲突描述为针对爱尔兰共和军的忠诚自卫；以及英国政府在冲突中公开保持中立的努力。