1970

Farewell to Presbyterian Peacemaker Rev Roy Hill

 

Craig in Guns Promise, ‘Liberal’ minister quits, RUC Arms Issue, Houses and Jobs for Derry

 

Gerry Fitt launches ‘radical’ new political party for NI, Plan for new Roddy McCorley monument in Toome

Gerry Fitt talks about new left-wing political party, Arming of RUC members discussed

 

Savage rioting as the Shankill Road turns on the British army; Charles Haughey arms trial – new twist

 

1970: Haughey Sought Clearance for ‘Arms for North’, court hears

 

1970: Central Citizens Defence Committee launches 25,000-word attack over Falls Curfew

 

1970: RUC Votes to Stay Unarmed; Gerry Fitt: ‘Action Needed on Discrimination’

No Peace Without Work, Derry tells minister; Blast Victim’s IRA Funeral in Belfast

‘Fantastic Risk’ from RUC Shots into Divis Flats, JFK widow to visit Harland and Wolff shipyard

 

 

Bloody 1920 Banbridge Siege Recalled 50 Years Later

 

1970: Chichester-Clark concedes ‘one man, one vote’ but many unionists dissent; Nationalists raise the hated 1923 Oath of Allegiance for public sector workers

1970: Haughey arms trial – calls for an election after defendants acquitted; Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and the birth of Provisional Sinn Fein

 

 

 

1970: As NI teeters on the brink, Maurice Hayes warns too few people are prepared to condemn violence from their own communities

1970: Complaints commissioner accuses Dungannon council of housing discrimination against family of 13

 

 

Bogsiders trained by Irish defence forces, 1970 Haughey arms trial hears

 

 

1970: United Ireland means poverty, says Oliver Napier; New twist in Charles Haughey arms trial

 

1970: Brian Faulkner rises as James Chichester-Clark’s future in doubt; Nationalist pressure to reform local government 

 

Sensation as judge quits Charles Haughey arms trial; 1970 Strabane bank raid almost foiled by faulty bag zip

 

 

1970: Rift over Fermanagh Rights March; Derry City FC Ordered To Play Windsor Park fixture as communal tensions rise

1970: ‘Unprecedented gangster-style double murder’ of two local men shocks west Belfast… and foretells the future

 

1970: SDLP hailed their first electoral outing as an “honourable baptism”; Death of colourful nationalist intellectual Prof James Scott

 

 

 

1970: Stormont controversy over Ulster ’71 – come join the fun’ promotion as violence escalates

 

 

 

1970: Arrests in Louth show IRA training camps are operating in the Republic

 

 

 

1970: Army admits for first time it confronts “organised terrorism” in NI; Sam Devenney controversy

 

 

 

Late 1970: The rise of the Provisional IRA – petrol bombs give way to machine guns, and NI edges closer to the precipice

 

 

 

 

1970: the Scarman Tribunal examines the conduct of the Tynan B Specials, revealing panic, lack of firearms guidance and a cover-up after John Gallagher’s death

1970: Paddy ‘Bogside’ Doherty denounced a campaign against his Derry appointment, Paddy Devlin clashed at the Old Bailey, saying: “I will not be sneered at”.

 

1970: Dun Laoghaire’s King George IV statue was blasted again, Hillery warned about Irish in the EEC, and Stormont clashed over a blocked Derry appointment

1970: A dossier details discrimination in Dungannon councils, while Derry nationalists push to end the Honourable the Irish Society and repatriate its assets.

 

1970: Shock as Ireland prepares to introduce internment camps; NI civil service discrimination alleged; Scarman hears of activities of notorious ‘Tynan’ B Specials