• The Bogside is a neighbourhood outside the city walls of Derry, Northern Ireland. The large gable-wall murals by the Bogside Artists, Free Derry Corner...
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  • The Battle of the Bogside was a large three-day riot that took place from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholic/Irish...
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    Bogside Racecourse was a horse racing track situated in Irvine, Scotland, on the banks of the River Irvine. Its first meeting was held on 7 June 1808...
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  • or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of...
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  • Bogside (an inner suburb of the city) in 1969 as the beginning of the Troubles. The Bloody Sunday incident of 1972 occurred in Derry, in the Bogside area...
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    The Bogside Artists are a trio of mural painters from Derry, Northern Ireland, consisting of brothers Tom and William Kelly, and Kevin Hasson (b. 8 January...
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    Molotov cocktail A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – see § Etymology) is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container...
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    Catholic Bogside and Creggan neighbourhoods, was first secured by community activists on 5 January 1969 following an incursion into the Bogside by RUC officers...
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  • Bogside Moor Halt railway station was a railway station near the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was part of the Lanarkshire and...
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    Bogside (Fife) railway station served the hamlet of Bogside, Fife, Scotland from 1850 to 1958 on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. The station opened...
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    Free Derry Corner is a historical landmark in the Bogside neighbourhood of Derry, Northern Ireland, which lies in the intersection of the Lecky Road,...
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  • Patrick Laurence Doherty (1926 – 7 January 2016), better known as Paddy 'Bogside' Doherty, was a Northern Irish activist from Derry, known for his activism...
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  • of the Bogside erupted in Derry: three days of fierce clashes between the RUC and thousands of Catholic/nationalist residents of Derry's Bogside district...
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    Catholics and Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland. After the Battle of the Bogside between Catholic residents of Derry and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)...
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  • and Conor heads to Derry. In Bogside Conor witnesses the extent of the disaster that has befallen the Irish people. Bogside is in tatters and a state of...
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    Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, Ballyoan Cemetery, The Bogside, numerous murals by the Bogside Artists, Derry Craft Village, Free Derry Corner, O'Doherty...
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  • her parents, four brothers and two sisters, in Drumcliffe Avenue in the Bogside. She was a pupil at St. Cecilia's College in Derry. Her siblings recall...
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    march in Derry on 5 October 1968, the beginning of the 'Battle of the Bogside' on 12 August 1969, or the deployment of British troops on 14 August 1969...
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    hour. After engaging, on the side of the residents, in the Battle of the Bogside in August, she was convicted of incitement to riot in December 1969, for...
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    Supporters and Nationalists. Violence in the city originally started in the Bogside but quickly spread out to the rest of the city, which included Creggan...
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  • police drove the protesters across the river into the Catholic area of the Bogside: "By this time the original confrontation between marchers and the police...
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  • the Free Kirk in Houston, the race moved to Bogside Racecourse, near Irvine. The inaugural winner at Bogside, The Elk, was owned by the Duke of Hamilton...
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  • Walker. This was on the city's walls overlooking the Irish nationalist Bogside area, and was blown up by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1973...
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    some threw pennies from the city walls towards the Catholic majority Bogside. The march was already seen as provocative to many of the city's Catholic...
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    Bogside railway station was a railway station serving the north of the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the...
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  • Bogside is a hamlet 2 miles north-east of Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the border of South Lanarkshire. The hamlet is situated on two main...
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    began in the Catholic Bogside area of Derry, following a march by the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry. The Battle of the Bogside caused Catholics in...
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  • born in the Boglands of County Donegal who moves across the border to the Bogside to marry a Derry (Northern Ireland) man. "Bogwoman" is a play on the term...
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  • Derry while carrying out undercover surveillance on a demonstration in the Bogside area. 14 December 1977: Corporal Paul Harman was shot dead by the IRA in...
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  • Express, The Sunday Times, and The Observer. His photo of the Battle of the Bogside in Derry of Paddy Coyle holding a Molotov cocktail and wearing a gas mask...
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