
Derry is a city which has been under foreign occupation for over 400 years. In 1921, despite the democratically expressed will of the vast majority of the Irish people for independence, the British government and Unionist minority forced partition on the county. Derry, a majority Nationalist city, was included in the illegitimate Northern Ireland statelet. Not content with their new gerrymandered state, the Ulster Unionist Party then gerrymandered Derry City's political boundaries to keep its council in the hands of the Unionist minority. Derry Nationalists were forced to live in appalling conditions for the next 50 years. Under complete Unionist domination, they were denied votes, housing, jobs, and civic services. In an effort to redress this Nationalists across the North began to peacefully organise themselves under the banner of Civil Rights. The regime in Stormont refused to even consider their demands. In Derry, Civil Rights demonstrators were repeatedly bludgeoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary. In 1969, after an Apprentice Boys of Derry march, Loyalists and the RUC attacked the Bogside and Creggan. The residents of these areas came out in force to defend their districts. Armed with only with bricks and molotov cocktails they fought the Police and Loyalist mobs for 3 days, successfully expelling them. They then build barricades to keep them out. Free Derry was born. Across Ireland and the world Free Derry corner came to symbolise both the physical <b>...</b>
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