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Why were British troops sent to Northern Ireland
in 1969?  
 
4 October 2007
APOLOGIES: Some links were corrupt but have now been restored.
Resources collected for GCSE coursework at Parkside Community Comprehensive School,
Crook, Co. Durham. 
 

1. Tasks previously set

3. Reference    

5. Pictures

2. Teaching aid

4. Websites

6. Videos clips     

1. Tasks previously set on 1969

Textbooks    

An Outline Answer                     

Exercises in Peace & Tolerance

BBC (NI): A State Apart, Lesson 2

  1. Tasks     2. Notes for Teachers

Timeline Activity   New - 31/01/2008

  1. pdf version   2. PowerPoint

 
2. Teaching aids
 
3. Reference

Date Lists

Glossaries

Why Did Political Violence Break Out in Northern Ireland in 1968-69? (IiS briefing)

Why Were British Troops Sent to Northern Ireland in 1969?

  1. Brief Narrative   2. Sample Essay (Free Essay Library)

On This Day: 14 August 1969 - British Troops Sent into Northern Ireland

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14/newsid_4075000/4075437.stm

Socialist Worker's View of Troops' Intervention

  http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12687

Cameron Report on the Northern Ireland Disturbances, 1969

  1. Summary of Conclusions    2. Full Report

 

4. Websites

Ireland in Schools

  Supporting the Schools History Project

Museum of Free Derry

  http://www.museumoffreederry.org/history-battle01.html

 

5. Pictures

jpg images: 4 sub-albums - Civil rights, Battle of Bogside, Burning of Belfast, British Troops

  http://irelandinschools.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album16

Slideshow of jpg images (PowerPoint)

 

6. Video clips (wmv format)

Civil rights issues

Housing

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4359881036084254524

Local government

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-787584774256609226

B-Specials

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=815975586275283253

Civil rights demonstrations & counter-demonstrations

Prime Minister Faulkner on the Meaning of the British Connection

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8552424824651884630

Caledon Housing Protest, June 1968

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6022216948085516753

Marches & Confrontations, 1968

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6125823544291362475

People's Democracy March, January 1969

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4957303708297435195

Burntollet Bridge Ambush, January 1969

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5966935233931635353

Battle of the Bogside & beyond

'The Troubles': August 1968 - Apprentice Boys, Battle of the Bogside, British Troops

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1230025318816970495

BBC4 Documentary: 'The Battle of the Bogside' 

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OmiRLstg8

Burning of Belfast, August 1969

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4437977791199727181

‘Derry Merry, Derry Free': Free Derry Fleadh, August 1969

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3tVdtYYJ4vg

Apprentice Boys of Derry - Derry's Walls

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g7yolZ_Ga6Y

Republican View of the Battle of the Bogside

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSvwOkio_I

After the intervention of British troops
 IRA v. British Troops (Republican perspective)

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-7491602805606991011

Loyalist Paramilitary Perspective on Conflict

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mPoqLxR_5qg

The Soldier - The Sacrifice of the British Army in Ulster (Loyalist video)

  Sergeant Michael G. Willets, 27, 3 Paras, died 25 May 1971'

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVb3uWL0-gU

Ian Paisley
 Protestant Leader, Politician, Prisoner, July 1966

 http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8903947926270837295

Opposes Terence O'Neill & His Reforms, February 1969

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2957657472179691822

Rejects 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uHhLe6WE0

‘crazy talk gerry adams ian paisley guy love’
  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uaomU7NgrOQ

Whimsy

History of the Red Hand of Ulster

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9E2_iPKAJn0

Red Hand of Ulster for Dummies

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BBz5ml5CNgg