1969 in Northern Ireland

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1969 in Northern Ireland

1 Events
2 Arts and literature
3 Sport
- 3.1 Football
4 Births
5 Deaths

[edit] Events

January 1 - The People's Democracy civil rights march leaves Belfast for Derry.
January 4 - Militant loyalists, including off-duty B-Specials, attack the civil rights marchers at Burntollet bridge in County Londonderry.
January 5 - Riots in Derry leave over 100 people injured.
January 27 - Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.
March 22 - Civil rights demonstrations take place all over Northern Ireland.
April 17 - Bernadette Devlin, the 21-year-old student and civil rights campaigner, wins the Mid-Ulster by-election. She is the youngest female MP ever.
April 20 - British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
April 28 - Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Terence O'Neill, resigns.
May 1 - Major James Chichester-Clark succeeds Terence O'Neill as the North's Prime Minister.
August 1 - A huge protest rally over events in Northern Ireland is held outside the GPO. The crowd demands that the Irish Army cross the border.
August 5 - Belfast experiences the worst sectarian rioting since 1935.
August 13 - As the siege of the Bogside in Derry continues An Taoiseach Jack Lynch makes one of the most important speeches ever made on Irish television. He says that the Irish government "can no longer stand idly by" and he demands a United Nations peace-keeping force for Northern Ireland. (See: Battle of the Bogside).
August 15 - A night of shooting and burning takes place in Belfast. In Dublin a Sinn Féin protest meeting calls for the boycott of British goods, Irish government protection of the people of Northern Ireland and United Nations intervention.
August 16 - British soldiers are deployed into particularly violent areas of Belfast.
August 17 - Members of an Garda Síochána clash with protesters on O'Connell Street, Dublin, as a march against the Northern Ireland situation heads for the British embassy.
August 27 - The B-Specials begin to hand in their guns following the decision by Lieutenant-General Freeland to disband them. British Home Secretary, James Callaghan, visits Belfast.
October 10 - The Hunt Committee Report recommends an unarmed civil police force in Northern Ireland.