ABSTRACT
Northern Ireland or to use Westminster’s much vaunted legislative supremacy until they were forced, perhaps shamed, into doing so in the late 1960s by the protests of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland against the policies of the Stormont Government. Hence from 1968 onwards the Wilson Administration in London urgently pressed a serious and belated reform programme upon the Stormont Administration led by Captain O’Neill; and a Downing Street Declaration in August 1969 sought to insist upon equal rights and full protection of the (British) law for the citizens of Ulster as much as for the citizens of other parts of the United Kingdom.
