The movement’s first manifestation, in terms of generating publicity and highlighting an issue, came in 1968 when Austin Currie, a young Nationalist MP, staged a protest by squatting in a house in the County Tyrone village of Caledon near Dungannon. The episode has come to be regarded as a seminal moment in Northern Ireland’s history, some even regarding it as the start of the troubles, or at least as the spark which ignited the bonfire.
