RTÉ Documentaries

Gunplot (2021x2)

: 26, 2021

In 1969, tensions that had been bubbling in Northern Ireland erupted in a conflict between Catholics and Protestants during the Apprentice Boys Parade, in Derry. The parade marked a Protestant victory over Catholic attackers in 1689. The violence which ensued soon became known as the Battle of the Bogside. But when word of the three day long battle reached the Irish Republic, the government under Taoiseach Jack Lynch decided to intervene. GunPlot examines the tumultuous 16 months which followed, culminating in the dismissal of ministers Neil Blaney and Charles J. Haughey who were accused of illegal attempts to bring arms into the Republic to give to Catholics in the North to defend themselves against rising violence.