In August 1969, Derry erupted. Tensions had been steadily increasing since the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) attacked civil rights marchers the previous October, and already that year there had been significant rioting on the edges of the Bogside, the nationalist area nestled under the city’s walls.

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