1968
'Getting rid of ‘The Ban’ was the best thing the GAA ever did': Paddy Doherty
IT’S 63 years on but Paddy Doherty can still hear the shouts, still see the faces taunting him from the sideline.
Down the days: Seamus McClean's long and winding road with the red and black
TRYING to steer Seamus McClean down the one road can sometimes feel a bit like throwing a lasso at an ant.
Still a Rossa: Mickey Niblock on Magherafelt, New York, Pele and Nemo Rangers
“THE boys in Magherafelt can’t believe Mickey Niblock’s a sheep farmer.”
Alex Kane: Fifty years on and we are still far apart
Simon Prince finishes his just updated book, Northern Ireland's '68, with this quotation from Anne Devlin's The Long March: "I still remember that time when we thought we were beginning a new journey: the long march.
Fionnuala O Connor: Press reports from 1968 show unionist leaders unable to grasp what was happening
RUC men on that Saturday fifty years ago blattered their way into history on camera, leaving newsprint catching-up as the Troubles, and the next week, began.
Events to mark 50th anniversary of the first civil rights march in 1968
THE campaign for civil rights in the north will be remembered during a series of events.
An Evening of Civil Writes to commemorate events of 1968
THE 50th anniversary of the birth of the civil rights’ campaign is to be celebrated this week in literary and musical evenings in Derry and Belfast.
Deaglán de Bréadún: Civil rights march in 1968 one of the earliest examples of the power of TV news
Having marked 20 years of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, we now have another significant anniversary approaching.
50 years on - Caledon Protest and the civil rights campaign
In occupying a house in Caledon in 1968 for a few brief hours, former Stormont MP Austin Currie believes he helped change history.
