ONLINE-From Civil Rights to Hunger Strikes 1968-1981 with Sean Murphy

Four Wednesdays, beginning June 10 from 7:15-8:15pm
Class Fee: $80.00 Non-Member/$75.00 Member
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This course will cover the significant events of this historic period and explain the background to them.

• The nature of the sectarian Unionist government.
• The emergence of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Association.
• The effect in Ireland of the Civil Rights and anti-war movements across the globe.
• The Unionist political response to the demands for civil rights.
• Loyalist violence and the return of the British army to the streets of Northern Ireland.
• The Provisional IRA emerges as the civil rights movement is beaten off the streets.
• Violent repression against nationalists and republicans including assassinations, internment, imprisonment and sectarian violence.
• The Ballymurphy Massacre and the Bloody Sunday Murders in Derry.
• Refugees fleeing to southern Ireland and elsewhere as their homes and communities are destroyed
• Suspension of the Unionist controlled government and the introduction of Direct Rule.
• The rise and fall of the Sunningdale power sharing agreement/assembly.
• Normalization and Criminalization
• The start of the prison protests – blanket and dirty protests.
• The hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981.
• The impact on the south of Ireland
• Election of hunger strikers and their supporters.

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