13th January 1969:  A civil rights demonstration in Newry, County Down.  (Photo by Norman Potter/Express/Getty Images)placeholder image
13th January 1969: A civil rights demonstration in Newry, County Down. (Photo by Norman Potter/Express/Getty Images)

Northern Ireland 1969: Generally accepted as the start of the modern Troubles - Some of the key moments in pictures

A look back through the archive to 1969

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