Abstract
Abstract This article examines accusations by the Unionist Government of the day that the Northern Ireland civil rights movement2 was a front for Republican and Communist subversion. It shows that Republicans and Communists were centrally involved in the creation of the movement and that the main civil rights organisation, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, originated in a proposal from a Republican group. However, it also shows that the evidence does not bear out Unionist assumptions about the subversive intentions of the movement, that the movement did not conform to the model originally proposed by the Republicans and that, in its early stages, Republicans and Communists were not in effective control.
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