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Trouble flares in Derry during the marching season in August 1975.

115 great photos from Derry & Donegal back in August 1975

By Brendan McDaid
Published 28th Aug 2025, 18:18 BST
Updated 29th Aug 2025, 08:51 BST

We’re rewinding the clock 50 years to bring you some these images of the people who graced the pages of the Derry Journal back in the summer of 1975. Copyright: Derry Journal archive.

Photos: Derry Journal Archive.

Pictured are people taking part in anti-internment demonstrations across Derry in August 1975 on the anniversary of the introduction of internment without trial in the north of Ireland four years earlier on August 9, 1971. Photos: Derry Journal.

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Pictured are people taking part in anti-internment demonstrations across Derry in August 1975 on the anniversary of the introduction of internment without trial in the north of Ireland four years earlier on August 9, 1971. Photos: Derry Journal. Photo: Derry Journal

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Folk music, dance and dress in Letterkenny and Buncrana in 1975.

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Folk music, dance and dress in Letterkenny and Buncrana in 1975. Photo: DJ

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Folk music, dance and dress in Letterkenny and Buncrana in 1975.

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Folk music, dance and dress in Letterkenny and Buncrana in 1975. Photo: DJ

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Folk music, dance and dress in Letterkenny and Buncrana in 1975.

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Folk music, dance and dress in Letterkenny and Buncrana in 1975. Photo: DJ

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