Timeline Flashcards
January 65
O’Neill meets Lemass
Speech TV “same rivers same problems”
February 65
O’Neill visits Dublin
November 65
O’Neill 38 out of 52 seats in election.
Leader of OUP
June 66
Re-emergence of UVF. Gun attack on Catholics. Peter ward killed.
O’Neill banned the UVF June 66 but violence continued.
50th anniversary of Easter Rising and Battle of the Somn
September 1966
Plot against O’Neill by backbenchers
1967
Lynch visits NI
Paisley snowballs taoichseach’s car
1967
NICRA formed
August 68
First NICRA march. Coalisland to Dungannon.
19 year old prod girl gets a house over Austin Currie MP squats.
October 68
Second NICRA march Derry.
Was banned but goes ahead.
3MPs+ Gerry Fitt
PD set up
November 68
British PM Wilson summoned O’Neill, Faulkner
And Craig to London
5 point programme
December 68
O’Neill TV Cross Rd Speech.
NICRA calls off marches.
Craig criticised O’Neill
O’Neill sacks Craig
January 69
PD March 1-4th January
Third- ambush at Burntollet Bridge
That bight police riot in Derry
Newry NICRA march
O’Neill sets up Cameron Commission into violence
Faulkner and one other member resigned
30 January 69
12pms called for O’Neill to resign
Instead he calls an election “cross roads election”
February 69
Cross Rds Election held
O’Neill wins
2 months after Cross Rds Election
Chichester Clark resigns over O’Neill wanting to introduce “one man, one vote”
Bombs by different Loyalist groups UVF+ UPV including Gusty spence made to look like IRA. Water and electricity instillation bombed
28 April 69
O’Neill resigned and replaced by Chichester Clark
Before summer 69
Stormont worried about security.
London sets up Cabinet Committee on NI
DUB sends intel officer to NI
July 69
Violence in Belfast spreads to Derry.
Burning Catholics out of their homes
12 August 69
Apprentice boys parade in Derry.
Violence in bogside (Battle of Bogside) (50hrs)
(During violence)
Taoiseach Lynch issued statement “irish government can no longer stand by…”
Send troops and field hospitals to borde.
BOB spreads to other towns
14-15 August 69
Deployment of British Soldiers
19 August 69
Chichester Clark goes to London to meet PM Wilson
Downing St Declaration
(police- scar an tribunal and hunt report)
Rest os summer 69
Brit army protects Catholics (no IRA)
AUTUMN 69
Meeting of IRA from the North in safe house in Belfast.
John Kelly and Billy Mc Kee overthrow IRA leaders in Belfast
Christmas 69 / new year 70
Meeting got IRA in Republic in hotel in dublin
IRA splits over socialist IREA to recognise legitimacy of Dublin Gov
