One of Northern Ireland's best-known civil rights leaders, Ivan Cooper, has died aged 75. Mr Cooper was one of the leaders of the civil rights march in Londonderry in 1972 that ended in 13 people ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

On Jan. 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead in Londonderry, Northern Ireland by British Army paratroopers, which eventually became known as “Bloody Sunday.” After mounting ...

"John Hume and other civil rights leaders were appealing for the march ... Independent News and Media/GETTY IMAGES The army was deployed to Northern Ireland in August 1969 Many young Protestants ...

Martin Luther King’s legacy is intact as the greatest African American leader of all time ... King’s importance in the civil rights struggle in Northern Ireland; he was "an enormously powerful ...

but by the late 1960s they had created divisions amongst unionists close unionistA person who believes the union between Britain and Northern Ireland should continue. who feared that too much was ...

The year 1922 marked the beginning of the final phase in Ireland’s revolution: it saw the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty; the establishment of the Irish Free State; the outbreak of the ...