Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement
In October 1988, Fortnight, the leading and longstanding current sociopolitical affairs review in Northern Ireland, celebrated 20 years of the regional civil rights movement (hereafter, CRM), by offering a meticulous discussion on the topic. The editorial started like this: “For, warts and all, the Civil Rights Movement was the only moment this century when a politics that was defined by something other than unionism or nationalism seemed suddenly to be possible” (Fortnight, Oct. 1988: 3). 
 
 
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Writing the Sixties into Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland into the Sixties
On 5 October 1968, police officers broke ranks to beat and blast a poorly attended civil rights march off the streets of Derry. For the young poet Seamus Heaney, this was a “watershed in the politi...
A History of Northern Ireland, 1920–1996
shows us, for example, how the 1960 film The Apurfnzent attacks the anonymity of the corporate world, while incidentally exposing the vulnerability of working women, which will become an issue later in the decade. Anthony Aldgate’s study of the British film This Sporting [@ demonstrates the self-consciousness of a changing society, as censors and filmmakers battle and barter over issues of languagc, nudity. and sex. Some chapters demonstrate how the culture changed during thc long dccadc, as analyzed in James Chapman’\ study of the television show The Awngers, Marwick’s chapter on the novels of Alison Lurie, and Robert Rowland’s eyewitness account of the British primetime program Punormu. Rowena Agajanian’s essay on the Beatles’ films and Allan F. Moore’s piece on Sgt. Pepper demonstrate the emergcncc of the transcendence of genres. Michael Coyne’s chapter on cold war books and films reminds readers of a global threat before Vietnam dominated popular culture. Windows on the Sixties is a thought-provoking and scholarly work. Its international approach contributes a much-needed context to morc insular studies of the period. It complements another recent work on culture and the sixties, T(i,mvrrow Never Knows, by Nick Bramell. Windows on the Sixties should intercst undergraduate history or cultural studies siudenh, scholars, and the general public.