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Photo of the late Martin Meehan being arrested on October 5th, 1968 at the civil rights march in Duke Street Derry.
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- (L-R) Mrs. Nellie Gorman, Mrs. Bridget Bond and Mr. Ivan Cooper taken at one of the ‘lulls’ before the storm at Derry Corporation’s monthly meetings.
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- G.F. O’Doherty, Editor of Reality
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- J.J. O’ Hara pictured being ‘lifted’ during blockage of other vehicles, the first occupied by the Mayor of Derry, at the official opening ceremony of the lower deck of Craigavon Bridge.
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- The ‘two Eamonns’, (L-R ) Melaugh and McCann addressing a D.H.A.C. street protest
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- (L-R) Neil O’Donnell and Roddy O’Carlin are welcomed home at the L.M.S. railway station after their release from H.M. Prison, Belfast where they were incarcerated for one month due to D.H.A.C. activities.
Originally published: Reality, No. 7, Centre Pages
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- Gerry Fitt, MP for West Belfast, is warmly welcomed in Derry. Behind him is ‘Vinny’ Coyle, the DCAC’s Chief Marshall of over 700 stewards. He and other stewards acted as unpaid bodyguards for civil rights leaders. Behind the smiling crowd of well-wishers policemen look on. It is believed that this picture was taken outside Derry Courthouse on Bishop Street during the hearing of ‘civil rights cases’.
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- A St. Columb’s College student, formerly held and beaten by three policemen, highlighted on the front cover of Reality, No. 7, is photographed, again. Obviously unconscious after his ordeal on Duke St. on Oct. 5th the teenager is literally dragged away to Victoria Barracks on Strand Road. He was a nephew of a local businessman, who was an active member of both the local Labour Party and the Derry Citizens’ Action Committee.
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- Copy of DHAC newsletter, Reality, No. 7, published after October 5th 1968. Its editor wrote: “Our cover shows up the brutality of the R.U.C. on that historic date October 5th. In any other country an independent public inquiry into police conduct would be an essential-but in Northern Ireland, far from being made to answer, they are indeed encouraged and it seems they can do whatever they please.”
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- Police arrest members of the Derry Housing Action Committee during a sit-down protest along the route to be taken by the Mayor. As First Citizen the plan was that he would occupy the official car. This first car was suddenly blocked immediately after the cutting of a ribbon to open the under-deck of Craigavon Bridge to traffic. Uniformed police were assisted by Special Branch. It was at this DHAC protest that the American civil rights anthem, “We shall overcome” was publicly sung in Derry for the first time. A few leading members of the “Choir”, and its “conductor”, who had remained standing, were very quickly seized and taken to Victoria Barracks, the main RUC base in the city.
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- Businessman Michael Canavan, treasurer of the Derry Citizens’ Action Committee is arrested by police after he and other chosen members of the DCAC ‘symbolically’ breached the police barriers by climbing over them on Craigavon Bridge during a mass demonstration for Civil Rights.
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- A meeting of the Londonderry Corporation.12 Unionists sat on the left opposite eight Nationalists. For almost fifty years the Unionists elected their own Mayor although a minority in the city. This was only possible through Gerrymandering. The Corporation was abolished and replaced with a Commission as part of the initial batch of reforms. Others were announced over a 50-day period following the events on Duke Street on October 5th 1968.
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- Young people assembled on Guildhall Square to protest after Oct. 5th 1968. Some sit down to block traffic. The majority remain standing. Others view the event from Derry’s Walls above at Shipquay Gate.
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The hundreds of people who attended Rebecca McGlade’s funeral last Sunday was testimony to the love and respect she had built up during her life.
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Cathy Harkin died on 22nd July, 1985
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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
