Derry Flashcards
Post WW2
Unemployment + economic stagnation
Services failed to relocate away from Belfast
Inequality
Increased inequality between rich and poor —> became seen as Protestant and Catholic
The Troubles
1960 to 1990 - Sectarian tensions
British Armed Forces intervened — protected Protestant Loyalists but contained Catholic Nationalists
Segregation
Nationalists forced into ‘Free Derry’ - Bogside
Loyalists situated in Waterside
Different opportunities - tensions
Rule of Law
Armed Forces oppressing Nationalists
Bloody Sunday - British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during protest in 1972
Rule of Fear
Nationalists using extremism
Bombings at Walkers Column in 1973
Successes now
Important location for European and North American shipping convoys
In 2013, it was labelled an inaugural UK City of Culture
Now 90000 people live in Derry’s urban areas