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Derry journalist, activist and campaigner, Eamonn McCann was at the Civil Rights march that would become Bloody Sunday and looks back on that day

Banty Nash looks back on his lucky escape as the bullets flew over him. However, relief turned to agony when he found out that his father, Alex, had been wounde...

From the civil rights background of the fatal march through to Widgery and Saville inquiries

IrishCentral Contributor Ed Nefasey looks at the events leading up to Bloody Sunday in 1972 Derry, and how they came to mark the end of Northern Ireland's Civil Rights Movement.

The Northern Ireland civil rights movement may not have been but for Martin Luther King Jr. We remember his Irish legacy on the anniversary of his famous I Have a Dream speech in 1963.

Dolours Price's dedication to the cause of freedom for Catholics in Northern Ireland saw her planning the 1973 bombings in Belfast and being imprisoned and force-fed mid-hunger strike.

The civil rights march of 1968 is seen as one of the starting points of the Troubles

Economic recovery cant be at the expense of the poorest 26 July, 2021 00:59 As countries in the West take steps to kick-start their economies following the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic, it is going to be critical that we do not lose sight of the global nature of this crisis. Tough decisions will inevitably be made by national governments as they respond to the economic realities of Covid-19 – a precipitous fall of 3.3 per cent in global GDP last year included – ...

Unfurling Bernadette Devlin, Quebec’s Catholic bishops, Irish nuns and William F. Buckley Jr. in the same thought, never mind one sentence, might be c...

April 17, 1969 On this day in 1968, Bernadette Devlin was elected to Britain’s Parliament on the “Unity” ticket, as MP for the Mid-Ulster constituency. The election followed the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest, and Devlin found she was running against Forrest’s widow on the Unionist ticket. At 21, Devlin was the youngest woman ever to be elected to Parliament. Raised Roman Catholic in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Devlin became passionately...