Archive for category Caledon
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- EYE OF THE STORM: Mary Teresa Goodfellow sits on the floor with her children while waiting to be evicted
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- MAKING HISTORY: Mary Teresa Goodfellow, right, and Geraldine Gildernew look back over press cuttings about their infamous eviction from a council house in Caledon 40 years ago. PICTURES: Mal McCann
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- EYE OF THE STORM: Mary Teresa Goodfellows mother, Anne Gildernew, struggles with two council bailiffs as she is evicted from number 11 Kinnard Park in Caledon, Co Tyrone, on June 18 1968
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- EYE OF THE STORM: Mrs Gildernew weeps while lying on the ground after being forcibly put out of the house
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- MAKING HISTORY: replies they received after they wrote to the Pope, Buckingham Palace, then prime minister Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and the UN, among others, as part of their campaign PICTURES: Mal McCann
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- EYE OF THE STORM: the Goodfellow and Gildernew family at the time of the eviction.
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- EYE OF THE STORM: Geraldine Gildernew, second left, mother of agriculture minister Michelle Gildernew, with, from left, Brian, Mary Teresa, Fran and Dawn Goodfellow, all of whom were evicted in 1968
BY Barry McCaffrey – Irish News 11/06/08
Forty years ago a family’s decision to make a stand over housing set in motion a chain of events that would give rise to the civil rights movement and thrust Northern Ireland into the international spotlight. Barry McCaffrey reports from Caledon
