When this had died away, and the city had gone to sleep, a crowd of policemen entered the Bogside at about 2 a.m., shouting and singing.13 They smashed windows and demanded that ‘the Fenian bastards’ come out and fight. Even if they did not come out to fight, unwary householders who came to doors or windows were either beaten up or stoned. In one street, St Columb’s Well, John McMenamin owned the only phone. Never very fond of pop music at the best of times, McMenamin was particularly underwhelmed by a version of the Monkees’ hit which the forces of law and order had adopted as their theme
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