The siege of Bastogne will forever be remembered because of the staunch resistance by the men of the 101st Airborne, ...

The first troops into the encircled Belgium city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge is often stated as the 4th ...

After defeat at home to Dublin in their first group stage game, Galway badly need a result in Derry, who are also desperate for the two points on offer ...

DERRY is ‘embracing peace’ as it becomes a tourism hotspot, the tour guide told me when I recently visited. Gone are the days ...

Serious rioting that began on 12 August 1969 in Londonderry is viewed by many as the beginning of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This BBC archive footage shows how some of the city's residents ...

While the causes, progress and end of the Troubles are broadly delineated and its major events dutifully remarked upon — Bloody Sunday, Bloody Friday, the Battle of the Bogside, the Maze prison ...

talked in the first film of the “good craic” in the run-up to what would come to be known as the Troubles – at the time of the Battle of the Bogside in 1969, he was just 17 – I doubted it would be ...

In Derry, it ended with a two-day Battle of the Bogside, in which the police used water cannon and CS gas against the protesters. The parades continued. Back in sunny Bangor I went with added ...

Driven by longstanding enmities between Catholics and Protestants over British rule, the conflict pitted neighbor against neighbor in acts of guerrilla warfare. The Troubles is a euphemism for the ...

If you had to pick an exact beginning of The Troubles, the Battle of the Bogside and the ensuing riots in August of 1969 is a possible starting point. A Protestant march in Derry led to counter ...

It incorporated an image of a teenager in a gas mask holding a petrol bomb from the so-called 'Battle of the Bogside' between the RUC and the nationalist community in Derry from 1969. It was ...