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Various reform groups aligned in 1967 to form the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. NICRA led the struggle against discrimination in the late 1960s. Its members were mostly moderate Nationalists but also included liberal Protestants and radical IRA plants.
The most important organisation established during this period was the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), established in 1967 to protest discrimination. NICRA's objectives were: To defend the basic freedoms of all citizens. To protect the rights of the individual. To highlight abuses of power.
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was formed in 1967 and began campaigning for reforms in voting rights, housing allocation and policing.
- Discrimination in Northern Ireland 1922-1968
- Provocation?
- Was Northern Ireland Irreformable?
The essential point to grasp about discrimination against Catholics in Northern Ireland was that it was primarily political. It was designed to maintain unionist control of the Northern Ireland state; every other consideration was secondary. So, where unionist control was perceived to be weak, discrimination in its most obvious forms; that is in vo...
One of the more tedious arguments about the Civil Rights movement as it coalesced in 1966-68 was whether it was in reality a front for the IRA. The IRA through the ‘Wolfe Tone Clubs’ was indeed involved in the founding of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1966, as part of its pivot towards civic agitation and left wing politics after...
It has often been argued that the Civil Rights agenda was perfectly possible to implement in Northern Ireland as it existed in 1968 and that most of its was indeed implemented by the early 1970s. Electoral boundaries were redrawn in 1969-1973. Public housing was now to be allocated by an independent body the Housing Executive. One man one vote was ...
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) (Irish: Cumann Cearta Sibhialta Thuaisceart Éireann) was an organisation that campaigned for civil rights in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Feb 4, 2019 · The Campaign for Social Justice (CSJ), the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), and a number of other groups, held the first 'civil rights march' in Northern Ireland from Coalisland to Dungannon.
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What were the aims of the NICRA and how successful were they in achieving those aims? The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was founded in 1967.
