10K views · 162 reactions | We’ll Walk Hand In Hand is a new play by Martin Lynch marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights struggle in Northern Ireland. This production explores what civil rights meant in 1968 and what it might mean in 2018. | Lyric Belfast | Facebook

This week fifty years ago, serious civil disorder broke out on the streets of Londonderry and Belfast. It marked the escalation of what would become known around the world as the Northern Ireland Troubles. Over the years that followed 3,600 people lost their lives. We've a series of special reports on the programme over the next five days reflecting on that time. This evening Mervyn Jess looks at the explosion of sectarian violence in the midst of civil rights marches which lit the fuse on thirt