On 21 July 1972 , known as Bloody Friday , the Provisional IRA set off 22 bombs in Belfast ; one of the explosions destroyed the premises of a seed merchant on Garmoyle Street . Stephen Parker , who at age 14 became the youngest victim of the day 's bombings , was the son of the Reverend Joseph Parker , at the time chief chaplain of the Flying Angel Club . This was a seamen 's mission in Sailortown located on Corporation Street , providing a temporary home for visiting sailors . Several months before Stephen was killed in the Cavehill Road blast , a bomb exploded in the vicinity of the mission and destroyed part of the building
Bloody Friday
Bloody Friday (1972)
Belfast's Sailortown