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Derry: Past and Present

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….

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Derry: Past and Present

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  1. Derry: Past and Present

  2. Present day view of the Bogside and Creggan neighborhoods from the city walls…

  3. Derelict houses in Catholic Derry outside the old city walls…

  4. Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association met with members of the Derry Housing Action Committee and planned a march for October 5, 1968

  5. The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) formed in 1967 and demanded…

  6. 1. Repeal the Special Powers Act • 2. One man, one vote • Those who paid rates • (taxes) were allowed to vote

  7. 3. End to gerrymandering electoral districts 4. Anti-discrimination laws 5. Disbanding the RUC 6. Fair allocation of public housing

  8. The first civil rights march in Derry: the beginning of the modern phase of “the Troubles,” October 5, 1968

  9. Police brutality was captured on film. The official report put the number of casualties as 4 RUC officers and 77 civilians

  10. The Battle of the Bogside, August 12-14 1969

  11. 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

  12. Barricades were built to keep the RUC out of Catholic enclaves

  13. Catholics used petrol bombs, rocks and various debris to defend “Free Derry”

  14. Bernadette Devlin: Youngest female MP ever elected Imprisoned for resistance in Battle of the Bogside

  15. 14 August 1969:British troops deployed in Northern Ireland

  16. British army barricade at the city walls…

  17. “Recreation”: Catholic children regularly pelted British military vehicles with stones

  18. The IRA declared the Bogside a “no go” zone for security forces

  19. The IRA set up checkpoints throughout “Free Derry” as Protestants demanded action from the British Army

  20. 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

  21. Present day Loyalist enclave just outside the Derry city wall …

  22. Entrance to the West Bank loyalist estate from further down the city wall…

  23. <----Maroon flag of Derry Surveillance Cameras 

  24. Notice the red, white and blue curbs…

  25. Loyalists build the bonfire to celebrate the Siege of Derry in 1689

  26. Apprentice Boys bonfire

  27. Observation barracks overlooking the Bogside due to be removed

  28. Paint Bombs 

  29. PSNI making an arrest

  30. “Bad” U2

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