Bernadette McAliskey, who as Bernadette Devlin was a political figurehead in Northern Ireland 50 years ago, has said she wouldn’t vote in a border poll to join the Republic which she calls the Free ...
50 years ago this month, two men died of injuries they sustained in beatings inflicted by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). These Troubles-related deaths were the first since the ...
A HANDFUL OF stones and a glass marble fired at loyalist marchers kicked-off the 48 hour riot that proved the breaking point for the RUC in 1969. A HANDFUL OF stones and a glass marble fired at ...
The disturbances in Londonderry in August 1969 are often cited as the beginning of the Troubles but that is a myth, says Nelson McCausland. Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1969, Ulster was ...