Barry Linnane reports on the civil rights riots in Newry [no date on disc label but Northern Ireland riots, including events in Newry, took place 12–16 August 1969]. Includes recordings from the ...

The rioting has mostly involved gangs of youths armed with bricks and petrol bombs Nearly 90 officers have been hurt in Northern Ireland's worst ... attacked lines of riot police officers and ...

At least a year before August 1969, community tensions across Northern Ireland had been heating up, with civil rights marches and campaigns of civil disobedience. There had been violent clashes ...