New Martin Lynch play marks 50 years since first civil rights march in the north
SHOPPERS in a bitingly cold Belfast city centre did a double-take yesterday when a civil rights march took place in Cornmarket.
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Declan Kearney: My factual reference to role of republicans in civil rights movement was misrepresented
Declan Kearney
MY factual reference in a recent article to the role of republicans, along with others in helping to establish the civil rights movement, has been misrepresented by several political opponents.
Tom Kelly: Any civil rights advances did not come at the point of a gun
Tom Kelly
The Price of my Soul was the first political book I remember reading.
Patrick Murphy: Sinn Féin claims on civil rights origins are unsustainable
Patrick Murphy
The connection between the GPO in Dublin and the former International Hotel in Belfast may not be immediately obvious.
Bernadette McAliskey rejects claim that civil rights movement was inspired by the republican movement
John Manley
BERNADETTE McAliskey has become the latest prominent civil rights campaigner to reject the notion that the mass protest movement of the late 1960s was inspired directly by Provisional Sinn Féin and the IRA.
Unionists angry over Maskey's 'putrid little statelet' tweet
A FRESH row has erupted among politicians after Sinn Féin’s Alex Maskey described Northern Ireland as a "putrid little statelet".
Panel talk will remember unionists role in the civil rights movement
Allison Morris
Prominent unionists are to mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement with a panel talk about the experience of northern Protestants at that the time.
Pat McElroy: Former council chairman and internee who always wore smile on face
TO the side of the main altar in the Cathedral of St Patrick and St Colman in Newry is a relic of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Sinn Féin's national chairman accused of 'rewriting history' of civil rights campaign
John Manley
Sinn Féin's national chairman has been accused of "rewriting history" by claiming that the inspiration for the civil rights campaign in the north came directly from the republican movement's leadership.
PLATFORM: 50 years on we must reflect on lessons of the civil rights campaign
Professor Paul Arthur
IT was Enoch Powell who noted that everything ‘has a pre-play’.
Poet Michael Longley to launch civil rights commemoration programme
Marie Louise McConville
POET Michael Longley will tonight launch a programme of events marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights campaign.
Programme launched to mark 50th anniversary of Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland
Seanín Graham
LANDMARK events that gave rise to the birth of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement are to be recognised throughout 2018 to mark the organisation's 50th anniversary.
Civil rights leaders still campaigning 50 years on
Seamus McKinney
TWO of the men who lit the touchpaper on Northern Ireland's civil rights campaign in 1968 have told how they have no regrets 50 years on.
Courageous Tyrone man who made history in Caledon sit-in
Aeneas Bonner
On Thursday June 20 1968 three men entered a house in Caledon, Co Tyrone, setting in motion a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the collapse of the Stormont regime.
