The events of August 1969 continue to reverberate for those who saw it for themselves

August 15th, 1969: Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

‘It felt like a very real, existential threat to our existence’

Since performing their stories together during a peace process initiative, pair have become close

August 14th 1969: Drawing on contemporaneous reports, Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

‘Half the regiment married local girls,’ says Michael who arrived in the North aged 20 in 1969

The Troubles at 50: Rioting in Derry remembered by first-hand witnesses

August 13th 1969: Drawing on contemporaneous reports, Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

Activist Bernadette McAliskey gives warning at event for 50th anniversary of the Bogside

Eyewitness: Jeanette Warke was a working class Protestant mother-of-two when violence broke out

Eyewitness to August 1969: Civil rights campaigner Dermie McClenaghan

Previously unpublished report claims 50-60 people would have died without volunteer efforts

August 13th, 1969: Drawing on contemporaneous reports, Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

Family of Patrick Rooney (9) continue to seek a prosecution 50 years on from fatal shooting in Belfast

The North 50 years on: Many of the 4,000 dead are remembered only by their families