NORTHERN IRELAND: UK P.M. JOHN MAJOR'S VISIT
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Fighting between police and supporters of the Irish Republican Army has disrupted Prime Minister John Major's trip to Northern Ireland's second largest city.
Hours before the Prime Minister was due to arrive in Londonderry, hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police. Several civilians and members of the predominantly Protestant police force were injured.
But, after initially cancelling his visit, Major defiantly walked the city's streets.
Sinn Fein demonstrators fought with police in Londonderry in the worst outbreak of violence since the IRA ceasefire was signed seven months ago. They had hoped to prevent a visit by British Prime Minister John Major.
Reinforcements from the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) arrived to try and contain the scuffles outside the Tower Museum, but to little avail.
Several people were injured in the bitter clashes, which shocked both the British and Irish governments.
Police dragged several protestors away from the scene.
But despite the melee, a defiant Major toured the Tower Museum anyway.
Earlier in the day, he spoke to prominent businessmen in Country Antrim.
He said that he looked forward to his government's continuing negotiations next week when Britain's number two minister Michael Ancram is expected to sit down with Sinn Fein negotiators.
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We want all parties in Northern Ireland to be full participants in a democratic political, and exclusively peaceful process. And that is one of the main purposes of the exploratory dialogue with the loyalists and Sinn Fein. When Michael Ancram joins the dialogue with Sinn Fein next week, it will be an historic moment. It will also be an historic opportunity, because we want to explore how Sinn Fein and the provisions can best demonstrate their exclusive commitment to peaceful methods by putting away violence and by putting away the instruments of violence.
SUPER CAPTION: John Major, British Prime Minister
The meeting will mark the first time a British minister has met with Sinn Fein since the September 1st ceasefire which ended its 24-year campaign against British rule.
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NORTHERN IRELAND: BELFAST: NATIONALIST RALLY AT CITY HALL
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Thousands of Nationalists have marched through Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who was once interned, told the crowd that Protestant marchers would not intimidate Nationalist communities.
The policy of holding suspected paramilitaries without trial was abandoned in 1975.
Thousands of nationalists attended a rally outside Belfast City Hall to mark the 25th anniversary of the British government's policy of internment without trial.
Bands parading from across the city arrived unhindered for the rally amid a huge but discreet police operation.
Fears of violent counter demonstrations by Loyalists proved unfounded.
Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams who was once an internee himself, addressed the crowd.
He defended the right to march despite recent tensions between Catholic and Protestant marches across the province.
SOUNDBITE:
Well it is that the issue of contentious marches hasn't been resolved, and I think the onus is very much on the British government. They can't deal with these as security matters, and part of the problem here is that the British government for years has been dealing with political issues as if they were security issues, and they know that isn't the case. So there needs to be a political resolution and that means that the British government need to face up to their responsibility in all of this.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein Leader
Sporadic violence, however, broke out in Northern Ireland overnight after a day of relatively peaceful parades by Protestants.
On Saturday, the 15,000 strong Apprentice Boys decided not to face off with police and instead marched through the predominantly Protestant part of Londonderry.
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I want to extend our solidarity to those in the small villages in Fermanagh, County Derry and here, and County Antrim who told the Orangemen that orange rule in this state has ended.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein Leader
But the sides locked horns as Catholics attempted to block a Protestant parade through the village of Bellaghy, outside Londonderry.
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And I want to extend a special solidarity to the people of Bellaghy who were assaulted by the RUC today and who are now, as we gather here under siege in their own village in County Derry.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein Leader
Catholics associate the annual marching season with the domination of Protestants in Northern Ireland.
SOUNDBITE:
All of us know, that the issue this last month hasn't been about marching. It has been about triumphalism, it has been about trammeling over other people's rights.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein Leader
Sunday's rally took place just yards from where earlier this year U-S President, Bill Clinton delivered a message of hope for the Northern Ireland peace process.
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The Orange Order marching season erupts into violence, injuring 30 police officers on Friday
UK: N. IRELAND: CATHOLICS CANCEL PROTEST MARCH
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Catholic residents in Londonderry have cancelled a protest rally - clearing the way for a peaceful Protestant march, that earlier had threatened to turn violent.
The Protestant marchers, known as Apprentice Boys, postponed plans to parade along the historic walls of Londonderry in Northern Ireland which over look the Catholic Bogside district.
But thousands more Apprentice Boys and their supporters have pressed ahead with a march through less controversial areas of the city.
Catholic residents of the Bogside district in Londonderry called off a counter protest to the Protestant Apprentice Boys march as tensions in the city appeared to die down on Saturday afternoon.
The afternoon announcement by the Bogside Residents Group was the last in a series of concessions by both Catholics and Protestants that diffused a potentially explosive situation in Londonderry.
Even though the rally was cancelled, some two thousand Catholics who had been readying to demonstrate at the so-called Free Derry Corner in central Londonderry, near where the Protestant Apprentice Boys order was parading, began to disperse.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
There has been no confrontation in this town today. We do not want any confrontation later on. We will monitor the situation and we will call people together if the need arises. I personally want to congratulate everybody for the magnificent discipline that people have shown. I think you all deserve a pat on the back.
SUPER CAPTION: Donncha MacNiallias, Bogside Residents Group
More than 10,000 Protestants had converged on Londonderry from far-flung towns and suburbs for the traditional parade.
It commemorate the day some 300 years ago when 13 apprentice boys thwarted a Catholic siege by locking the gates of the city.
The government had appeased the Catholics but enraged the Protestants earlier in the week by barring the parade from the section of the wall that abuts the Bogside, citing security.
The Catholics, in a conciliatory gesture on Friday night, agreed to reroute their own march away from a Protestant centre that had been a potential flashpoint for trouble.
One Republican politician called on calm and sensible thinking during a time when the fragile peace between the two communities could still flare up.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I think it is very important that people on all sides who have political leadership positions do everything in their power to give proper and sensible, commonsense leadership at this very dangerous time. We have as you may know for some years now been involved in an attempt at a conflict resolution situation in this country akin to what has been happening in South Africa and what is happening in the Middle East at the moment. And we are attempting to encourage our political opponents to recognise the urgent need for political negotiations to tackle all of the issues at the heart of this conflict. Unfortunately for us our difficulty centres on the fact we have a weak British prime minister that has done absolutely nothing to encourage the Unionists to come to the negotiating table with the rest of nationalist Ireland and I think that in relation to what has happened over these particular marches that these are only a symptom of a greater problem and that greater problem will only be resolved when all parties sit together on an equal basis, all inclusive process, no preconditions, to discuss all of the issues which are outstanding.
SUPER CAPTION: Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein Spokesman
Tensions appeared to be on the brink of flaring up but appeals to the nationalist (Catholic) crowd for calm appeared to be successful.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein Spokesman
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RUC raid on Derry Sinn Fein Centre.Mary Nelis and others arrested.
Footage from 1995.Derry republicans arrested.SF centre raided. Scuffles during raid. More footage from John Major Day, including Major's reaction to the protests.
Protests at Tower Museum in Derry against John Majors visit, 1995.
This is a compilation of raw footage filmed by 4 republican activists for a documentary More Than A Sacrifice which marked the first anniversary of IRAs .
News Bulletins from 6 counties media and RTE reference the protests opposing John Majors visit to the Tower Museum in Derry, 1995.
English/Nat Fighting between police and supporters of the Irish Republican Army has disrupted Prime Minister John Majors trip to Northern Irelands second .
James Magennis V C Honoured in Belfast City Hall
We are in Belfast City Hall. The building is fabulous. It is finished in varoius marbles, exotic woods, delicate paint work and elaborate stained glass windows. the whole place oozes Belfast history.
We have done the City Hall Tour when Cindy our brilliant and tireless Tour Guide points out this City Hall Tribute to Northern Ireland's only VC winner in the Second World War. It is of Belfast submarine hero James Magennis. (there is a gable wall mural honouring seaman Jame Magennis at Tullycarnet Belfast. there is a sculpture tribute to him out in front of Belfast City Hall. There is a blue plaque tribute outside his short term home (6 yrs. ) at Clonduff.
Thank you Cindy for making our day.
James Joseph Magennis VC (spelling originally McGinnes)[1] (27 October 1919 – 12 February 1986) was a Belfast-born recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the only native of Northern Ireland to receive the Victoria Cross for Second World War service. Magennis was part of several operations involving X-Craft midget submarines in attacks on Axis ships. In July 1945 Magennis was serving on HMS XE3 during Operation Struggle. During an attack on the Japanese cruiser Takao in Singapore, Magennis showed extraordinary valour and bravery by leaving the submarine for a second time in order to free some explosive charges that had got caught. His commanding officer Lieutenant Ian Fraser was also awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 31 July 1945 during the Operation.
Birth name James Joseph McGinnes
Nickname(s) James Mick Magennis
Born 27 October 1919
Belfast, Ireland
Died 12 February 1986 (aged 66)
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service 1935–1949
Rank Acting Leading Seaman
Unit HMS Kandahar
HMS XE3
Battles/wars Second World War:
Operation Source
Operation Struggle
Awards Victoria Cross
POW protest in Derry and Republican campout
POW protest
The fate of a British soldier
A video for drama on the life of a british soldier under captivity of the japanese in world war II KGV. the setting is the pavilion which was used as a torture chamber.
RUC raid on Derry Sinn Fein Centre.y Nelis and others arrested.
Footage from 1995.Derry republicans arrested.SF centre raided. Scuffles during raid. More footage from John Major Day, including Majors reaction to the protests.
RUC surveillance in Derry. Extract from Picturing Derry. Camera Maxim Ford, editor Esther Ronay, Extract from Picturing Derry, directed by David Fox and Sylvia Stevens; produced by David Glyn..
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British Troops In Londonderry (1972)
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Londonderry / Derry - Northern Ireland.
Various shots of British soldiers patrolling along a street in Londonderry. The troops carry rifles and riot shields. A few locals are standing watching them walk past. LS of man walking down round talking to people - Possibly politician John Hume. VS Graffiti painted on wall including 'Dad's Army' and 'Go Home' and 'Join The IRA'. Various other Republican / Nationalist slogans painted on different walls. - 'Ireland For the Irish'. VS of run down housing areas Pan to show British soldiers on patrol along street. VS of man with donkey pulled cart collecting kitchen waste from houses. More anti-English and anti-RUC graffiti. High angle shot of housing area - people chatting in streets. More rooftop views of parts of Londonderry. Signs of new flats being built. Travelling shots along road showing abandoned / derelict houses and burnt out cars. Piles of rubbish - possibly a barricade. Boys pretend pieces of wood are guns. More troops on patrol - possibly Royal Marines. Ls of children in streets. CU sign calling for a Rent Strike. Children play in the street. CU Poster - 'Strike Now against Internment'. More shots of troops.
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Free Derry
Free Derry documents the rise and fall of an autonomous, nationalist, Irish Catholic area of Northern Ireland from 1969-1972. The region broke away from the UK in response to lingering British colonialism. Protestants gerrymandered political districts, the British army and police used excessive violence against Catholics, and Catholics faced discrimination in employment and access to public services. Through interviews, photographs, and murals, Free Derry tells a little known story of the fight for equal rights for Catholics in Derry.
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Free Derry (Irish: SaorDhoire) was a self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland, between 1969 and 1972. Its name was taken from a sign painted on a gable wall in the Bogside in January 1969 which read, You are now entering Free Derry. The area, which included the Bogside and Creggan neighbourhoods, was secured by community activists for the first time on 5 January 1969 following an incursion into the Bogside by members of the police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Residents built barricades and carried clubs and similar arms to prevent the RUC from entering. After six days the residents took down the barricades and police patrols resumed, but tensions remained high over the following months.
Violence reached a peak on 12 August 1969, culminating in the Battle of the Bogside—a three day pitched battle between residents and police. On 14 August units of the British Army were deployed at the edge of the Bogside and the police were withdrawn. The Derry Citizens Defence Association (DCDA) declared their intention to hold the area against both the police and the army until their demands were met. The army made no attempt to enter the area. The situation continued until October 1969 when, following publication of the Hunt Report, military police were allowed in.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) began to re-arm and recruit after August 1969. In January 1970 it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA. Both were supported by the people of the Free Derry area. Meanwhile, relations between the British Army and the nationalist community, which were initially good, deteriorated. In July 1971 there was a surge of recruitment into the IRA after two young men were shot and killed by British troops. The government introduced internment on 9 August 1971, and in response, barricades went up once more in the Bogside and Creggan. This time, Free Derry was a no-go area, defended by armed members of both the Official and Provisional IRA. From within the area they mounted gun attacks on the army, and the Provisionals began a bombing campaign in the city centre. As before, unarmed 'auxiliaries' manned the barricades, and crime was dealt with by a voluntary body known as the Free Derry Police.
A white63 crow in Creggan Derry
The Belfast Blitz / German Luftwaffe Blitz on Belfast 1941
The German Luftwaffe Blitz on Belfast in 1941 by Joe Baker of the Glenravel Local History Project ( ) Uploaded and Managed by TheNewlodge.com ()
Historian and author Brian Barton describes the effects of the German air raids of and 1941. The attacks caused widespread destruction and loss of life across the City with East Belfast.
Im on Talbot Street that runs alongside St Annes Cathedral. Im in the only Belfast museum that focuses exclusively on the bombing of Belfast - the Belfast Blitz. My thanks to Kerry, one.
We were soldiers ... and I was young!
Photographs from 2nd Bn. Queen's Regiment's Londonderry tour (1982-84).
I cannot believe that I was ever this young. I had hundreds of photos .... but these are all I have left now.
The Queen's Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade. In turn, the regiment became part of Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment in a further amalgamation with the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1992.
The regiment was formed as a 'large regiment' on 31 December 1966 by the amalgamation of the four remaining regiments of the Home Counties Brigade as a consequence of the Defence Review of 1957.
During its existence, the deployments of the regiment's battalions were primarily to Northern Ireland, especially during the more turbulent times of the 1970s and 1980s, attempting to keep the peace between the opposing Catholic and Protestant factions, and taking part in anti-terrorist operations against the numerous paramilitary organisations.
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The Provisional IRA bomb Madame Tussauds & the Boat Show 5th January 1975
Two bombs exploded within three minutes of each other. The first at Madame Tussauds, the second during the Boat Show at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Police confirmed a telephone warning had been given shortly before both explosions allowing evacuations at both sites and there were no fatalities or injuries reported. It was later confirmed the devices had been planted by the IRA from a statement.
The Jackets Green Part 2 - Provisional IRA Sinn Fein
THE JACKETS GREEN What are you fighting for?
Armed simply with this question, Arthur Mac Caig goes to Northern Ireland to confront Irish Republicans. The result is an inside look at the ghettos of Belfast.
The first image is of a young man marching through the city streets. He is 20 years old, but very much a child. His face belies enormous tension, as does the tight grip on his rifle. His teeth are clenched in fear. Rita O'Hare, director of Republican News, a nationalist weekly, was severely wounded by British soldiers. Later imprisoned for 3 years, she now lives in exile in the South of Ireland. Then there is Brendan Hughes, former IRA leader, who has spent 13 years in prison, conducted a 53 day hunger strike, and been tortured on several occasions. He says, In the beginning when a soldier or a policeman had been killed, I was happy. But now I feel sadness. I don't wish the death of anyone, but here the only reality is war.
THE JACKETS GREEN calls no one to arms, but offers simple portraits of a few men and women most often represented as fanatical zealots. As they speak candidly about their cause, it becomes difficult to continue branding them as terrorists.
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Annette McGavigan: How a story becomes History (2008)
Annette McGavigan: How a story becomes History (2008) by Despina Meimaroglou
Annette McGavigan, a fourteen-year-old school girl was shot dead by British soldiers on her way home from school on Sept 6th 1971 during the troubles in Derry, N. Ireland. This audiovisual installation consists of a double video screening where the past alternates with the present. The material was gathered from the original footage of a television crew that happened to be at the scene of the crime, and from recent shots taken by D. Meimaroglou of the present-day city. The voice-off features the voices of Annettes relatives.
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cool video of wwe future superstarsClosing the Ring is a film set in Branagan, Michigan and Belfast, Northern Ireland and is by Richard Attenborough. The film will be released by The Works Distribution throughout the UK and Ireland On December 28th 2007. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 14, 2007. The film also received its UK premiere at the London International film festival on both October 21 and October 22 2007. The B-17 used in this movie was the Yankee Lady from the Yankee Air Force museum and flown by D. Gene Wedekemper.
Story:
The film opens with the funeral of a former WWII veteran. The man's daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her father, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend Jack (Christopher Plummer) seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life. The movie flips to a time when this mother was young, lively, and optimistic (young Ethel Ann played by Mischa Barton). She is in love with a young farmer, Teddy Gordon (played by Canadian new comer Stephen Amell), who goes off to war with his best friends Jack (Gregory Smith) and Chuck (David Alpay), but not all of them make it back alive. The plot lines intertwine with the story of a young Ulsterman in Belfast who finds a ring in the wreckage of a crashed B-17 and is determined to return it to the woman who once owned it.
Cast:
Shirley MacLaine - Ethel
Christopher Plummer - Jack
Mischa Barton - Young Ethel Ann
Stephen Amell - Teddy Gordon
Brenda Fricker - Grandma Reilly
Pete Postlethwaite - Michael Quinlan
Martin McCann - Jimmy Reilly
Neve Campbell - Marie
Gregory Smith - Young Jack
David Alpay - Chuck
Layke Anderson - Army Corporal
BJ Hogg- Maguire RUC Special Branch
Directed by Richard Attenborough
Produced by Richard Attenborough
Jo Gilbert
Written by Peter Woodward
Music by Jeff Danna
Cinematography Roger Pratt
Editing by Lesley Walker
Distributed by The Works Distribution
Release date(s) December 28 2007
Country United States, Canada, Belfast, United Kingdom
Language English
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Closing the Ring ist ein US-amerikanisch-britisch-kanadisches Filmdrama von Richard Attenborough aus dem Jahr 2007.
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Jimmy Reilly findet im Jahr 1991 einen Ring und sucht daraufhin die Person, der der Ring gehört. Es stellt sich heraus, dass der Ring dem Besatzungsmitglied eines im Jahr 1943 in der Nähe von Belfast abgestürzten Bombers Boeing B-17 Teddy Gordon gehörte. Gordon, Jack und Chuck warben im Jahr 1941 in Kentucky um die Gunst von Ethel Ann, die sich für Gordon entschied. Später gingen alle drei Männer in den Krieg.
Gordon starb, bat jedoch vor seinem Tod am Absturzort den damals jungen Michael Quinlan, der Ring sollte seiner in den Vereinigten Staaten lebenden Verlobten Ethel Ann überreicht werden, die einen neuen Verlobten wählen sollte. Quinlan barg den Ring nicht, so dass Ethel Ann ihn nicht bekam. Sie heiratete später Chuck und gebar die Tochter Marie. Chuck ist inzwischen verstorben.
Reilly sucht Ethel Ann, die er aufspürt. Marie erfährt über die Vergangenheit ihrer Mutter.
Kritiken:
Die Redaktion von contentfilm.com schrieb, der Film sei eine „epische Romanze über Verlust und Auflösung, Liebe und Versöhnung sowie die Fähigkeit, Glück zu finden.
Hintergrund:
Der Film wurde in Belfast, in Toronto und in Dundas (Ontario) gedreht. Seine Produktionskosten betrugen schätzungsweise 23,5 Millionen US-Dollar. Er hatte seine Weltpremiere auf den Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin 2007 im Februar 2007