Over 1,000 people were injured in the rioting in Derry, but no one was killed. "The Trouble in The Bogside was a very large communal riot that took place during 12?14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Tensions had been building in Derry for over a year before the Battle of the Bogside. [17] Others consider John Patrick Scullion, who was killed 11 June 1966 by the Ulster Volunteer Force, to have been the first victim of the conflict.[18]. January 30th 1973 Refresh and try again. It was at this point that the famous mural with the slogan "You are now entering Free Derry" was painted on the corner of Columbs Street by a local activist named John Casey. --Wikipedia. I bought this book shortly after it was first published and the copy it is now well worn. As a result, although Catholics made up 60% of Derry's population in 1961,[7] due to the division of electoral wards, unionists had a majority of 12 seats to 8 on the city council. Only a handful of radicals in Bogside, notably Bernadette Devlin, opposed the deployment of British troops. Penguin Books; 0th Edition (January 30, 1973), Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2017, Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2003. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. If it had been allowed to develop it could have found much wider community support. The book factually records the street violence that is now known as the battle of the bogside. [4], Secondly, only owners or tenants of a dwelling and their spouses were allowed to vote in local elections. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Russell Stetler (Author) › Visit Amazon's Russell Stetler Page. Quantity Available: 10. The march was considered highly provocative by many Catholics. Firstly, electoral wards were gerrymandered so as to give unionists a majority of elected representatives in the city. When the advantage that this position possessed was realised, the youths were kept supplied with stones and petrol bombs. The fighting was between residents of the Bogside area (organised under the Derry Citizens' Defence Association), and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) along with local unionists.[1][2]. After their failure to break through barricades in Derry, the police used armoured cars with machine guns to try to disperse the crowds Buy The Battle of Bogside Revised edition by Hippsley, Paul, Limpkin, Clive (ISBN: 9781911053415) from Amazon's Book Store. [9] Examples of such controversial[4] decisions affecting Derry were the decision to close the anti-submarine training school in 1965, adding 600 to an unemployment figure already approaching 20%; the decision to site Northern Ireland's new town at Craigavon and the siting of Northern Ireland's second university in the mainly unionist town of Coleraine rather than Derry, which had four times the population and was Northern Ireland's second biggest city. Tensions had been building in Derry for over a year before the Battle of the Bogside. During the clashes in Dungiven, Catholic civilian Francis McCloskey (67) was beaten with batons by police officers and died of his injuries the following day. In part, this was due to long-standing grievances held by much of the city's population.