The Story of BBC News in Northern Ireland is told by BBC journalists and managers as well as media observers. Their perspectives cast light on some of the major issues through the decades.

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody police assault on civil rights demonstrators in Derry on 5 October 1968 One of ...

At the time I was researcher for the Nationwide programme, on which Barry, as the Northern Ireland regional presenter ... television news programme in the 1960s. One of the first to tell us ...

It was in September 1960 the harvest was almost done. I threw the last sheaf of oats to Dad and said, “Táimíd criochnaithe” (We’re finished). He said, “Bliain eile. Ba mhaith dó ...

David Bleakley, who has died in his native Belfast in his 93rd year, was a major figure in the North’s Labour politics when Labour almost outpolled the Unionist Party in Belfast in the 1960s.

broadcast 30 December 1960. Commentary of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final between Down and Kerry, 25 September 1960.