Route ’68: to Burntollet and back

The January 1969 Belfast to Derry march was organised by People’s Democracy, a civil rights group that had come into existence only a few months earlier. We were dismayed at the poor turnout and were outnumbered by Loyalist counter-demonstrators. International parallels As the four-day march got under way, prisoner 46664 on Robben Island, an obscure ... Read more

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