Editing Derry (section)

====Partition====
[[File:War memorial Derry 2007 SMC.jpg|thumb|upright|The war memorial in The Diamond, erected 1927<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.localhistories.org/derry.html |title=A Brief History of Derry |last=Lambert |first=Tim |work=LocalHistories.org |access-date=28 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406171411/http://www.localhistories.org/derry.html |archive-date=6 April 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>]]
During the [[Irish War of Independence]], the area was rocked by sectarian violence, partly prompted by the guerilla war raging between the [[Irish Republican Army (1917–22)|Irish Republican Army]] and British forces, but also influenced by economic and social pressures. By mid-1920 there was severe sectarian rioting in the city.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0624/1224249415663.html |title=June 24th, 1920: Pitched battles on the streets of Derry |access-date=13 February 2010 |last=Joyce |first=Joe |date=24 June 2009 |newspaper=The Irish Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009054622/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0624/1224249415663.html |archive-date=9 October 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://saoirse.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2326 |title=This is a chronology of Irish War of Independence |access-date=13 February 2010 |work=Saoirse.21.Forumer.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303110930/http://saoirse.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2326 |archive-date=3 March 2012}}</ref> Many people died and in addition, many Catholics and Protestants were expelled from their homes during this communal unrest. After a week's violence, a truce was negotiated by local politicians on both unionist and republican sides. (See: [[The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922)]]).

In 1921, following the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] and the [[Partition of Ireland]], it unexpectedly became a 'border city', separated from much of its traditional economic hinterland in [[County Donegal]].