flyPostFeb 5

Film Screening: Ireland Behind The Wire - Berwick Street Collective 1974

The New Theatre, Thursday, February 12 at 06:30 PM GMT

Film Screening: Ireland: Behind The Wire (1974) - Berwick Street Collective:


"Unlike their counterparts in mainstream TV news, the investigative Berwick Street Film Collective were given exclusive access to Belfast's Catholic community. The testimonies and footage of life 'behind the wire' that they captured amounts to a grim but arresting picture of Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles. Ireland - Behind the Wire is a now regarded as a landmark of the 1970s oppositional cinema movement.


As well as using film to convey alternative viewpoints to those aired via established news channels, the Collective embraced formal experiment, perhaps influenced by the work of Jean Luc Godard and Chris Marker. The film signalled the beginning of what is often called the reflexive tradition in documentary film in the UK. It may seem surprising that the BFI Experimental Fund committed state funds to a film that so outspokenly opposed government policies and practices. One of the Collective's founding members, Marc Karlin, later revealed that the Special Branch seized some of their original footage and the Ministry of Defence pressurised ACTT, the film technicians' union, into erasing some of the frames."

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Irish Left ArchiveAug 25, 2025

Published #OnThisDay 25th August 1969:

"No Peace Until Unionism Is Smashed"

Barricades Bulletin, from the Derry Labour Party Young Socialists in the aftermath of the "Battle of the Bogside".

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/423/

#Ireland #History #Politics #FreeDerry

Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition (1969) — Young Socialists [DLP]

Commentary and PDF of Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition, published by Young Socialists [DLP].

Irish Left Archive
Conor ❤️ #MelanieC ❤️ #Sweat ♥️ #musicmatters #musicislife #music ❤️Apr 6, 2025
#FreeDerry 1997 A powerful image of a father and son standing in front of Free Derry wall during the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 1997. The wall has been adorned with 14 black flags for each of the victims that were murdered by British soldiers in 1972. May they rest in peace ❤️ #Derry 💔🇮🇪
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
GabJan 30, 2025

Free Derry (Irish: Saor Dhoire) was a self-declared autonomous Irish nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland that existed between 1969 and 1972 during the Troubles. The civil rights movement highlighted the sectarianism and police brutality of the overwhelmingly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).

#resist #revolution #antifascist #socialism #upthera #bloodyfriday #freederry #youareloved❤️#fuckmeta #fuckzuck #fucktrump #fuckelon

GabJan 30, 2025
Free Derry (Irish: Saor Dhoire) was a self-declared autonomous Irish nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland that existed between 1969 and 1972 during the Troubles. It emerged during the Northern Ireland civil rights movement, which sought to end discrimination against the Irish Catholic/nationalist minority by the Protestant/unionist government. The civil rights movement highlighted the sectarianism and police brutality of the overwhelmingly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).

The government introduced internment on 9 August 1971 in Operation Demetrius. In response, barricades were again erected around Free Derry. This time, Free Derry was defended by well-armed members of the IRA. From within the area they launched attacks on the British Army, and the Provisionals began a bombing campaign in the city centre. As before, unarmed "auxiliaries" manned the barricades, and crime was handled by a voluntary body known as the Free Derry Police.

Support for the IRA rose further after Bloody Sunday in January 1972, when 13 unarmed men and boys were shot dead by the British Parachute Regiment during a protest march in the Bogside (a 14th man was wounded and died 4 1⁄2 months later). Following the Bloody Friday bombings, the British retook the "no-go" areas.

Many of the residents' original grievances were addressed with the passing of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which redrew the electoral boundaries and introduced universal adult suffrage based on the single transferable vote. Elections were held in May 1973. Nationalists gained a majority on the council for the first time since 1923. The Free Derry era is commemorated by the Free Derry wall, the murals of the Bogside Artists and the Museum of Free Derry.

#resist #revolution #antifascist #socialism #upthera #bloodyfriday #freederry #youareloved❤️#fuckmeta #fuckzuck #fucktrump #fuckelon
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDJan 30, 2025
(2 of 2) The protests were being held due to UK policies that saw hundreds of people rounded up and tortured, almost none linked to IRA. The UK government lied for decades about the massacre, claiming they were fired on, only admitting the truth in 2010.
#IrishUnity #FreeDerry
Jordi SalviaSep 6, 2024
#FreeDerry
Show threadEstelle PlatiniFeb 7, 2024

"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."

Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons

"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg

#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying

Why we should remember the battle of the Bogside

Historian Niall Ó Dochartaigh considers the importance of the riots in Derry that marked the start of 30 years of violent conflict

HistoryExtra
Irish Left ArchiveAug 25, 2023

Published #OnThisDay 25th August 1969:

Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition.

"No Peace Until Unionism is Smashed"

Barricades Bulletin was produces by the Derry Labour Party Young Socialists in August and September of 1969, during which Free Derry was barricaded to prevent British troops and B-Specials entering the area after the Battle of the Bogside.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/423/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #FreeDerry #DerryLabourParty #Bogside

Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition (1969) — Young Socialists [DLP]

Commentary and PDF of Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition, published by Young Socialists [DLP].

Irish Left Archive
Martina Anderson Sinn FéinAug 3, 2023

What a goal
Brilliant play
I though I was neutral.., but from the hills of #kerry to the streets of #FreeDerry - you could hear me scream out 👏
#KerryVDublin

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/M_AndersonSF/status/1685669849731620865

Martina Anderson Sinn Féin💚 (@M_AndersonSF)

What a goal Brilliant play I though I was neutral.., but from the hills of #kerry to the streets of #FreeDerry - you could hear me scream out 👏 #KerryVDublin

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