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Derry: Past and Present
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Derry: Past and Present
Present day view of the Bogside and Creggan neighborhoods from the city walls…
Derelict houses in Catholic Derry outside the old city
walls…
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association met with members of the Derry Housing Action Committee
and planned a march for October 5, 1968
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) formed in 1967 and
demanded…
2. One man, one vote
• Those who paid rates(taxes) were allowed to vote
1. Repeal the Special Powers Act
3. End to gerrymandering electoral districts
4. Anti-discrimination laws
5. Disbanding the RUC
6. Fair allocation of public housing
The first civil rights march in Derry: the beginning of the modern phase of “the
Troubles,” October 5, 1968
Police brutality was captured on film. The official report put the number of
casualties as 4 RUC officers and 77
civilians
The Battle of the Bogside,
August 12-14 1969
A full-scale riot erupted when the Apprentice Boys jeered and taunted Catholics at the Bogside during
their march to commemorate the siege of Derry
Barricades were built to keep the RUC out of Catholic enclaves
Catholics used petrol bombs, rocks and various debris to defend “Free Derry”
Bernadette Devlin:
Youngest female MP ever elected
Imprisoned for resistance in Battle of the Bogside
14 August 1969:British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
British army barricade at the city walls…
“Recreation”: Catholic children regularly pelted British military vehicles with stones
The IRA declared the Bogside a “no go” zone for security forces
The IRA set up checkpoints throughout “Free Derry” as Protestants demanded action from the
British Army
4,000 extra British troops were brought into Northern Ireland to take part in the dismantling of barricades on the boundaries of 'no-
go' areas
Present day Loyalist enclave just outside the Derry city wall …
Entrance to the West Bank loyalist estate from further down the city wall…
Surveillance Surveillance Cameras Cameras
<----Maroon flag of Derry<----Maroon flag of Derry
Notice the red, white and blue curbs…
Loyalists build the bonfire to celebrate the
Siege of Derry in 1689
Apprentice Boys bonfire
Observation barracks overlooking the Bogside due to be removed
Paint Paint BombsBombs
PSNI making an arrestPSNI making an arrest
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