16 May – In a parliamentary by-election in Derry the Ulster Unionists retains the seat.[1]
20 May – Terence O'Neill, Northern Ireland Prime Minister, is showered with eggs, flour and stones after a meeting of the Woodvale Unionist Association.[1]
May – Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) holds another protest at the Guildhall, Derry.[1]
4 June – Lord Stonham, Minister of State at the Home Office with responsibility for Northern Ireland, begins a three-day visit.[1]
21 June – The annual conference of the Nationalist Party unanimously approves the protest action by Austin Currie in Caledon.[1]
22 June – The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stages a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry.[1]
July to December
3 July – As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) holds a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city.[1]
22 August – The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about discrimination in Northern Ireland. The report is heavily criticised by unionists.[1]
27 August – The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) organises another protest in the Guildhall's council chamber. Afterwards it invites NICRA to organise a march in Derry.[1]
28 August – Gerry Fitt, MP, tables a House of Commons motion, signed by 60 Labour Party backbenchers, criticising RUC action in Dungannon on 24 August, demanding that "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom".[1]
5 October – A civil rights march in Derry, which includes several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, resulting in two days of serious rioting in Derry.[2]
