Brendan Duddy Papers at NUI Galway. A new digital collection.
Brendan Duddy was a Derry businessman born in 1936 and with an involvement in community affairs, civil rights in Northern Ireland. A protestant, he had a peace role with all communities and witnessed key events from the 1970s-2008. The papers include newspaper clippings and his eye-witness statements relating to Bloody Sunday 1972, the hunger strikes of the IRA and work with the Northern Ireland policing board from 1990s-2008. They include published pamphlets, news clippings, oral history documents and original manuscripts which would be of great value to researchers of the troubles.
Of course, those interested in this topic should not forget CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) from the University of Ulster which contains material on ‘the Troubles’ and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. They include oral histories
There are also links to associated primary resource sites containing photographs, bibliographies and images of murals as well as original pamphlets and documents from all perspectives.
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