Keith, I think we're at the point where "versions of history" play an important part. I don't think the Civil Rights movement was hijacked by the IRA. Indeed, the Official IRA was not campaigning at the time. It's more that the Civil Rights approach was killed by the reaction of the RIC- remember the B Specials? The IRA split when ethnic cleansing by the "Loyalists" started, and some people (in my opinion understandably) thought fighting back was more likely to stop it than singing We Shall Overcome. The siege of Bogside finally confirmed PIRA as the defenders of Nationalist areas. If what has happened since has been a rake's progress to gangsterism as many say, it wasn't how it started.