Damien Duff had no complaints about the outcome of the battle. But his focus was already switching to the war.
In the past nationalists have strongly resisted allowing loyal order parades through mainly Catholic districts. This includes ...
“In an Ireland trying to emerge from the shadows and find who it was, Nell McCafferty was one of the people who knew exactly ...
Old comrades from McCafferty’s time at the frontline of almost every social battle in modern Irish history ... And she came from the Bogside to do that,” he said, to warm applause.
Although British officials noted that extremist republicans had been "quiescent" during the 1960s, the IRA resurfaced following the outbreak of the Troubles after the Battle of the Bogside in ...
In August 1969 three days of nationalist rioting erupted in Derry, known as the Battle of the Bogside, after an Apprentice Boys parade through the city. Many people look to this period as the ...
Fresh from the petrol bomb, Bogside barricades ... but eventually the battle was won. Nell, meantime, was having battles of her own. She loved the high life, champagne, celebrity, mad jaunts ...
I made my way to the Bogside murals and I noticed that a man was repainting the Free Derry Corner. I introduced myself, and he briefly told me his story. He was 12 years old during the Battle of the ...
“There wasn't really anything, like a battle between the army and the Provos ... of Stephen McConomy – young Stephen was killed by a rubber bullet (in the Bogside area of Derry, 1982) and Julie ...
The axe-shaped Jeannie Schmidt Memorial Trophy belongs to the Redhawks for the next year. Justin Washington’s interception ...
On September 11, 1297, the warrior vanquished the superior armies of Edward I, cementing his status as one of Scotland's most ...