THE COLD COLD GROUND Characters By Chapter	EDITOR: Elizabeth Robinson

CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION 1 IRA   Irish Republican Army; underground Irish nationalist organization for Irish independence from Great Britain   Bobby Sands Imprisoned IRA activist/hunger-striker, died 5/5/82   Frankie Hughes Imprisoned IRA activist/hunger striker, died 5/12782   UDR   Ulster Defense Regiment   Constable Price Police officer in Duffy's Carrickfergus squad, canine officer    Constable McCrabban Police officer in Duffy's Carrickfergus squad, aka "Crabbie"   Sgt. Alan McCallister Police officer in Duffy's Carrickfergus squad   Sgt. Sean x McCallister Detective, Carrickfergus police squad leader. Catholic   Mrs. Campbell Duffy's attractive next-door neighbor    Inspector Brennan Duffy's superior, head of Carrickfergus squad   Mrs. Bridewell Another neighbor of Duffy's, 2 doors down   Matty McBride Forensics officer   Carol   Police station secretary   Constables Quinn & Davey Police at scene of 1st murder   John Doe 1st murder victim   CID   Criminal Investigation Division   Dr. Laura Cathcart Police pathologist 2 Adele   Duffy's former girlfriend, schoolteacher   UVF   Ulster Volunteer Force, illegal Protestant paramilitary group   UDA   Ulster Defence Association, illegal Protestant paramilitary group   RUC   Royal Ulster Constabulary   Oscar McDowell Newsagent   Jim Prentice Police officer, manages informants for the group   Sammy McGuinn Duffy's barber, violinist with the Ulster Orchestra 4 Mrs. McCawley Helpful librarian at Carrick Library     Jameson Trainee police officer   Inspector Mitchell Brennan's deputy, runs RUC sub-station in Whitehead   Andrew Young 2nd murder victim, music teacher at Carrickfergus Grammar School, suspected homosexual 6 Lucy O'Neill Moore Ex-wife of imprisoned IRA activist, missing for 6 months, found dead in Woodburn Forest outside Belfast   Seamus Moore Ex-husband of Lucy Moore, in the Maze for possessing a stolen shotgun, on hunger strike     DeSloot Forest ranger who found Lucy Moore's body   Margaret Tanner Seamus Moore's mistress   Ned Armstrong Employee of Confidential Telephone 7 Bobby Cameron Neighbor of Duffy, officer in the terrorist group Ulster Freedom Fighters (division of the UDA) 8 Tommy Little 1st murder victim, occasional driver for Gerry Adams & Sinn Fein, and maybe more   Sinn Fein   Left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.   Gerry Adams Irish Republican politician active in Sinn Fein from the 1970s, in charge from 1983 to 2018 10 Heather Fitzgerald Constable of the Carrickfergus station 11 Walter Hays   Former boyfriend of Tommy Little   Billy White Protestant paramilitary, UVF commander, suspected of crimes. Tommy was going to see him the night of his murder   Freddy Scavanni Sinn Fein press officer, associated with the IRA 12 Davey Childers RUC liaison at the Maze Prison   Shane Davidson Assistant to Billy White   FRU   Force Research Unit, the IRA's internal security unit 13 Dr. Ian Paisley Loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland. Evangelical minister 14 George Seawright Scottish-born unionist politician in Northern Ireland and loyalist in the UVF (assassinated in 1987). Councilor for the DUP   DUP   Democratic Unionist party, unionist political party in Northern Ireland favoring British identity 15 Claire O'Neill Lucy Moore's sister   Raymond McCreesh IRA prisoner in the Maze on hunger strike, died on May 21, 1981   Patsy O'Hara IRA prisoner in the Maze on hunger strike, died on May 21, 1981   Tony O'Rourke Editor, Sunday World newspaper   Inspector Todd Special Branch 19 Anthony Blane Billy White's lawyer 22 Peter Evans MI5 agent