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We focus on the civil rights era of the 1960s and the Free Derry/early troubles period of the 1970s.
🕰 Open Mon–Fri: 9:30–6 / Sat–Sun: 10–4

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pics from today's walk and a wander / the reason for it

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🗓On this day: Festival of the Oppressed🗓
NWCRA - Civil Rights

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) poster promoting the Festival of the Oppressed in Ballymurphy, 1972.

The festival occurred the year after the Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971, during which the Parachute Regiment of the British Army killed eleven people.
(Parachute Regiment referred to as "Para" within poster)

Donor: Museum of Free Derry

Catalogue Number: 030755

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/festival-of-the-oppressed/

NWCRA is made possible by @heritagefunduk #HeritageFund

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NWCRA Justice Rights

Poster for a Bloody Sunday march organised by the Troops Out Movement (TOM) as part of their campaign for British Withdrawal from Ireland and support for Irish self-determination. The TOM formed in 1973 in response to the actions of British troops In Ireland, notably in Ballymurphy and on Bloody Sunday.
1991, London.

Donor: Daisy Mules

Catalogue Number: CRA 26 029

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/join-the-bloody-sunday-march/

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NWCRA - LGBTQ+ Rights

Tarlach MacNiallais in 'Save Sodomy from Ulster' t-shirt, 1983 NUS conference at Queen’s University, Belfast. Belfast Newsletter.
This photograph features in 'Cherishing all the children of the nation equally: Irish Republicanism & ‘The Gays’, a new exhibition from Museum of Free Derry, Áras Uí Chonghaile and OUTing the Past. For more information or to host this exhibition, contact @museumfreederry

Donor: Tarlach MacNiallais / Belfast Newsletter. All rights reserved

Catalogue number: MFD-LGBTQ-099

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/save-sodomy-from-ulster/#

NWCRA has been made possible by @heritagefunduk #HeritageFund

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NWCRA - Justice Rights

A fold-out poster critically examining the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), including background information, advice on what to do if arrested and how Troops Out Movement (TOM) can assist, 1980/90s

Donor: Museum Of Free Derry

Catalogue Number: 031066

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/pta/

NWCRA has been made possible by @heritagefunduk #HeritageFund

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NWCRA - Justice Rights

Poster for a public meeting on collusion between British security forces and loyalist paramilitary organisations. Pat Finucane Centre, Derry, 1993

Donor: Daisy Mules

Catalogue Number: CRA 26 062

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/public-meeting-on-collusion/

NWCRA has been made possible by @heritagefunduk #heritagefund

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NWCRA - Language and Culture Rights

Magazine, 'Training for the Gael', a publication by the Derry branch of Conradh na Gaeilge containing articles on the Irish language, culture, and community history.

Donor: Gearóid Ó hEára

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/training-for-the-gael/

Several items on the North West Civil Rights Archive website are multi-page documents; to view, click the image to expand it and browse the document in full.

NWCRA is made possible by @heritagefunduk #HeritageFund

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NWCRA: Justice Rights

Poster for Domhnach na Fola/Bloody Sunday march, 2001, Derry. Translation, ‘ We know, you know - Protecting the guilty’. Graphics of a British soldier, a government official, an RUC officer, and a judge. Designed by Declan McLaughlin.

Donor: Daisy Mules

Catalogue Number: CRA 26 130

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/domhnach-na-foch/

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NWCRA: Women's Rights

Poster protesting strip searching of women prisoners in Armagh Gaol. From 9th November 1982 the implementation of more frequent strip searches led to local and international campaigns against the practice.

Donor: Peter Moloney

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/stop-strip-searches/

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🚩NWCRA: Workers' Rights🚩
Poster of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Eleanor Marx visiting Derry, 25-29th November 1991

At St Columbs Hall in 1891, Eleanor Marx launched a recruitment drive primarily for women working in Derry’s shirt factories, who then became the first unionised group of women in Ireland. Her father Karl Marx previously wrote about Tillie and Henderson factory in “Das Kapital”.

Donor: Daisy Mules

Catalogue Number: CRA 26 052

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/100th-anniversary-of-eleanor-marx-in-derry/

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You’ve done it again, Dubai. 🎬

The latest release of tickets for The Day Innocence Died screening is now completely sold out.

The response to this has been incredible.

A community, cultural, historical and educational screening and clearly a story that people still want to hear, understand and remember.

Thank you to everyone who has booked.

Dubai we’ll see you at the screening. 🇮🇪

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‘No Rents, No Rates, No Arrears’, 1971-73

Poster promoting a rent strike until the end of interment. Graphic depicts an illustration of an eviction during the Irish Land Wars (primarily 1879–1882) during which a No Rent Manifesto (1881) was issued by the by imprisoned leaders of the Irish National Land League to protest the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881.

Donor: Museum of Free Derry

Catalogue number: 030757

https://civilrightsarchive.org/printed-material/no-rent-no-rates/

The NWCRA has been made possible by National Lottery Heritage Fund @heritagefunduk #heritagefund

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