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3 unusual facts about Apprentice Boys of Derry


Apprentice Boys of Derry

In 1969, the Apprentice Boys' parade around the walls of Derry sparked off three days of intensive rioting in the city, known as the Battle of the Bogside.

The siege of Derry ended when, under the orders of the Dutch Marshall Frederic Schomberg, three armed merchant ships, the Mountjoy, the Phoenix and the Jerusalem, sailed up the River Foyle.

This was on the city's walls overlooking the nationalist Bogside area, and was blown up by the IRA in 1973.


1986 in Northern Ireland

31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.


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