Derry / Londonderry

Derry/Londonderry appears in 698. The Troubles: The Brink of Civil War (Part 2) as the symbolically charged city where civil-rights protest and loyalist-unionist historical memory collided. The episode treats the 5 October 1968 banned march as a decisive publicity moment because RUC violence was filmed and broadcast beyond Northern Ireland.

The city later becomes the setting for the Battle of the Bogside, the Apprentice Boys parade flashpoint, local Catholic defense preparations, and the first British Army deployment in August 1969.

Connections

• Bogside, Battle of the Bogside, Apprentice Boys of Derry, and Derry Citizens Defence Association - local crisis structure.
• Gerry Fitt, John Hume, Bernadette Devlin, and William Craig - political figures tied to Derry events.