Editing Derry (section)

===The Troubles===
{{Main|The Troubles in Derry}}
[[File:Free Derry Corner in 1969.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|"[[Free Derry Corner]]" at the corner of Lecky Road and Fahan Street in the Bogside. The slogan was first painted in January 1969 by John Casey.]]

The conflict which became known as the Troubles is widely regarded as having started in Derry with the Battle of the Bogside. The Civil Rights Movement had also been very active in the city. In the early 1970s, the city was heavily militarised and there was widespread civil unrest. Several districts in the city constructed barricades to control access and prevent the forces of the state from entering.

Violence eased towards the end of the Troubles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Irish journalist Ed Maloney claims in ''The Secret History of the IRA'' that republican leaders there negotiated a ''de facto'' ceasefire in the city as early as 1991. Whether this is true or not, the city did see less bloodshed by this time than Belfast or other localities.

The city was visited by an [[orca]] in November 1977 at the height of the Troubles; it was dubbed Dopey Dick by the thousands who came from miles around to see him.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radiofoyle/dopeydick/ |title=A whale of a time |publisher=[[BBC Radio Foyle]] |access-date=12 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206195727/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radiofoyle/dopeydick/ |archive-date=6 February 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>