The Irish Times

Bloody Sunday: Timeline of an atrocity and its long legal aftermath

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

Sat Jan 22 2022 - 06:00

‘Elders of the Rebel Alliance’ remember the day everything changed

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

Sat Oct 09 2021 - 03:00

Leading Irish-Americans urge boycott of ‘Irish Lives Matter’ T-shirts

Letter sent to senior black representative criticises Amazon and Walmart for selling shirts

Wed Jul 29 2020 - 20:15

How the Troubles began: a timeline

From civil rights marches in Derry to nationalists seeking refuge in Ireland

Thu Aug 15 2019 - 12:26

Peter Casey’s childhood brush with civil rights did not instill empathy

Some Derry activists are still campaigning for social justice in their native hinterland

Sat Nov 03 2018 - 05:00

Duke Street march: Shouting ‘press, press’ was no shield

Martin Cowley was among those attacked during the 1968 civil rights protest in Derry

Fri Oct 05 2018 - 01:00

‘No one imagined the violence that would follow’: Eamonn McCann on Derry in 1968

Civil rights march ‘created a spark which led on to conflagration’, veteran protester recalls, 50 years on

Sat Sept 29 2018 - 00:50

New course looks at Civil Rights movement and early Troubles

Key players in protests or politics 50 years ago will lecture at Stranmillis University

Tue Sept 04 2018 - 01:00

The lost story of Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march

The Derry parade in 1968 was preceded by a protest that started in Coalisland

Fri Aug 24 2018 - 06:00

How Austin Currie’s 1968 housing protest ignited NI’s civil rights movement

Revisiting the issue 50 years on the SDLP co-founder reflects on current state of affairs

Fri Jun 15 2018 - 05:00

SF criticised over trying to block Seamus Mallon becoming freeman of Drogheda

Labour Senator Ged Nash says Sinn Féin move ‘a vindictive, petty and small-minded political act’

Tue May 15 2018 - 18:57

Northern Irish civil rights founder who was put off by militancy

Obituary: Fred Heatley

Sat May 06 2017 - 01:00

Founder of North civil rights movement Fred Heatley dies

As a former professional boxer he also wrote extensively on the sport over many decades

Mon Apr 24 2017 - 13:01

Pope Francis joins in tributes to Derry bishop Edward Daly

Bloody Sunday priest turned blood-stained cloth into ‘symbol of compassion’

Thu Aug 11 2016 - 18:03

Minister, language scholar and radical political activist

Terence McCaughey: April 17th, 1932 - February 9th, 2016

Sat Feb 20 2016 - 16:23

Belfast trade unionist dedicated to working-class unity

Sean Morrissey: July 29th, 1923 - January 3rd, 2016

Sat Feb 13 2016 - 09:31

Social justice activist Reverend McCaughey dies aged 83

Reverend was a leading member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland

Tue Feb 09 2016 - 16:35

Obituary: Robert Ford – in charge of army in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday

Robert Ford: December 29th, 1923 – November 24th, 2015

Sat Dec 05 2015 - 01:00

Ex-British soldier arrested over 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings

PSNI’s Legacy Investigation Branch say they arrested man (66) in Co Antrim

Tue Nov 10 2015 - 15:02

Staunch polemicist who dedicated his life to the Workers Party

Des O’Hagan: March 29th, 1934 - May 5th, 2015

Sat May 16 2015 - 01:00

Archive of human rights activist to be unveiled at NUI Galway

A visit to Detroit reminded Kevin Boyle ‘of the ghettos of Belfast’

Thu Nov 27 2014 - 11:56

Hume’s 1964 ‘Irish Times’ articles helped redefine nationalist attitudes to North

National public airing of principle of unity by consent

Mon Apr 28 2014 - 01:01

Paisley expresses support for civil rights movement

Former leader backs aims of movement, yet alleges it was ‘tied up in other things’

Fri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00

Doctor and leading light of the North’s early civil rights movement

GP was key instigator of the 1960s campaign to address homelessness in Dungannon caused by unionist policy

Sat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00