You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources.
1(a)Study Source A.
What can you learn from this source about the Civil Right movement in Northern Ireland? Explain your answer, referring to details of the source.(5)
(b)Study Source B
Why do you think the artist made this statement? Explain your answer.(6)
(c)Study Source C.
Are you surprised by what this source says about the reason for the Civil Right movement in Northern Ireland? (7)
(d)Study Source D and Source E.
Does Source E prove that what shocked viewers across the world in Source D was true?
(7)
Who was responsible for the riots during the Civil Rights March of 1968?
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Read this carefully. It may help you answer some of the questions.
On 24 August, 1968 the first civil rights march was organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). This first march passed off peacefully but not so a demonstration held a few weeks later on 5 October in Derry. This was banned by the Unionist government and the few hundred who turned out to defy the ban, found themselves sandwiched between lines of baton wielding policemen and were ruthlessly beaten.
That night the television news showed pictures of the police attacking the marchers. The shock and anger this created turned the civil rights campaign into a mass movement.
Source A: Picture showing a mural of the Civil Right March of 5 October 1968. It is drawn by one of the 'The Bogside Artists' William Kelly in Derry, Northern Ireland.
Source B: From a website by the artists who drew the Civil Right
Mural.
Three individuals make up the group known as 'The Bogside Artists' - Tom Kelly, Kevin Masson and William Kelly. The group is famous for their murals in the area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
These murals depict key events of 'the Troubles' in the city since 1968. The artists have lived in the Bogside most of their lives and have experienced the worst of the conflict. In telling this story they have served to acknowledge with dignity if not pride the price paid by those who became victims of the struggle for democratic rights.
Source C: From the BBC News website
Unionists had ruled Northern Ireland for more than 50 years. During that time, the nationalist and Catholic minorities were subject to various kinds of discrimination.
In the late 1960s a group of nationalists, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, began to work for change. It catalogued discrimination against Catholics in housing and employment and demanded equal voting rights for all in local government elections.
Source D: Information obtained from Wikipedia
NICRA and the Derry Housing Action Committee organised a march to be held in Derry on 5 October 1968. William Craig, the Northern Ireland Home Affairs Minister, banned the civil rights march from the city centre.
When the demonstrators defied the ban, they were baton-charged by the Royal Ulster Constabulary who injured many marchers, including West Belfast MP Gerry Fitt. Television pictures of the march taken by RTÉ cameraman, Gay O'Brien, shocked viewers across the world.
Source E: A photograph from the Museum of Free Derry showing the scene in Rossville Street, 13th August 1965.
Suggested Answers
1(a) Study Source A.
What can you learn from this source about the Civil Right movement in Northern Ireland? Explain your answer, referring to details of the source (5)
The Civil Right movement was no n-violence as the mural show a happy, almost festive occasion conducted by people who were content that they were standing up, at long last, against prolonged injustice.
The aim of the march was to bring about the elimination of discrimination in government. This is shown in the poster with words like anti-sectarian, and one man one vote which shows that the march was proetsting against the action of the Protest goevrnment who were favouring the Protestant.
(b) Why do you think the artist made this statement? Explain your answer. (6)
The artists want to convince the viewer that what their intention was to describe ‘The Trouble’ as it was. This is because they have lived in the Bogside most of their lives and have experienced the worst of the conflict.
They want the viewer to recognize the price that some people have paid to fight for their right.
(c) Study Source C.
Are you surprised by what this source says about the reason for the Civil Right movement in Northern Ireland? (7)
No I am not surprise by what this source says about the reason for the Civil Right movement in Northern Ireland.
The nationalist and the Catholic minorities have been discriminated for more then 50 years during the Unionists rule.
There fore I am not surprise when they demand for housing and employment and equal rights for all in local government election.
This is supported by Source A which is a mural showing that the people asking for jobs and to have the one man one vote system.
Therefore I expected the reason for the Civil Right movement in Northern Ireland.
(d) Study Source D and Source E.
Does Source E prove that what shocked viewers across the world in Source D was true? (7)
No,it does not prove that what shocked viewers acroos the world in Source D was true as Source E was taken in August while the event described in Source D took place in October.
In addition, the picture did not show protester being baton-charged by the Royal Ulster Constabulary but a burning building.
However Source E is useful in tell me that demonstrators and riots are covered by television crew as Source E shows a televsion crew capturing an event that is taking place in Derry.
Therefore I can infer and guess that the event in Source D would be covered by the television crew and the ocitures taken would shocked the world.
But Source E cannnot prove compeletely that what shicked the viewers across the world in Source D is true.
