“Being disappointed by Captain O’Neill’s Government’s failure to deal effectively with the root causes of unrest afflicting our society, we cease to function as official opposition until such time as the Government gives further concrete evidence of a sincere desire to remedy the situation.”
—Nationalist Party, as Northern Ireland anti-partition party, in statement protesting against both slow pace of reform and police action in Derry/Londonderry on 5 October 1968, 15/10/1968. The Irish Times, 16/10/1968.
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