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Oct 5, 2024 · Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, became notorious when soldiers of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment shot unarmed Catholic civilians protesting the internment without trial of hundreds of suspected Irish Republican Army sympathizers, many of whom were innocent and detained on faulty information.
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17 January 1972:Seven republican internees escape from the Maidstone prison ship in Belfast lough. 22 January 1972:British Army soldiers fire rubber bullets and use tear gas on an anti-internment march at Magilligan strand in Derry. Several thousand people take part in the demonstration. Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972: 13 demonstrators are shot dea...
2 February 1972: The funerals of 11 of the victims of Bloody Sunday take place in Derry. Prayer services are held across Ireland to coincide with the funerals. Tens of thousands of people march to the British Embassy in Dublin. The protesters carry 13 coffins and black flags. The embassy is attacked with stones and bottles and then burnt to the gro...
4 March 1972:Two Catholic civilians are killed and over 130 people injured as The Abercorn Restaurant in Belfast is bombed. The IRA are believed to have been involved but do not claim responsibility. 20 March 1972:Six people, including two policemen and a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (a regiment of the British Army), are killed after the I...
6 April 1972:The Scarman Report into the causes of violence during the summer of 1969 is published. It finds that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had been seriously at fault on a number of occasions. 15 April 1972:Official IRA leader Joe McCann is killed by British soldiers close to his home. 19 April 1972:The Widgery tribunal of inquiry into e...
14 May 1972:A 13-year old Catholic girl was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast. 21 May 1972:The Official IRA kills British Army soldier William Best, who was originally from Derry. The shooting of the 19-year old provokes anger and over 200 people attend a protest the following day. 26 May 1972:The government in the Republ...
3 June 1972:A Protestant demonstration in Derry, against the creation of “no-go” areas in the city, ends in violence. 13–15 June 1972:The Provisional IRA proposes a ceasefire. The SDLP act as intermediaries and submit it to the British government, which accepts the terms. The ceasefire comes into effect on 26 June.
7 July 1972:Provisional IRA leaders hold secret talks with British government officials, including Northern Ireland Secretary of State William Whitelaw, in London. The talks fail. 9 July 1972:The ceasefire ends after a confrontation between British Army soldiers and Catholics who had been intimidated into leaving their homes by loyalist paramilitar...
7 August 1972:Seven people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland. 22 August 1972:Nine people, including three IRA members and five Catholic civilians, are killed after an IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post in Newry, Co Down. 26 August 1972:Six people are killed in three incidents across Northern Ireland.
10 September 1972:Three British soldiers are killed and four injured in an IRA landmine attack near Dungannon, Co Tyrone. 14 September 1972:Two people are killed and one mortally wounded as the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) bomb the Imperial Hotel in Belfast. 25 September 1972:The Darlington conference on the future of Northern Ireland open...
6 October 1972:Sinn Féin’s headquarters in Dublin is closed down by Gardaí under the Offences Against the State Act. 12 October 1972:Armed robbers steal £67,000 from the AIB branch on Dublin’s Grafton Street, in the largest such theft in Ireland at the time. Two brothers, Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn, are convicted of the robbery in July 1973. At t...
Jan 30, 2022 · Relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday have been remembering their loved ones on the 50th anniversary. Thirteen people were shot dead when soldiers opened fire on civil rights demonstrators...
Jan 30, 2022 · 50 years ago in Derry-Londonderry the events of Bloody Sunday unfolded. 13 catholic men were shot dead by the British military, another died of his wounds later. They were on a civil rights march. It took 38 years for the truth of that day to emerge in a public inquiry.
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DateCelebration27 November - 3 December1st Sunday of Advent4 December-10 December2nd Sunday of Advent11 December-17 December3rd Sunday of Advent18 December-24 December4th Sunday of AdventJan 30, 2022 · This day would become known as Bloody Sunday, and represent a defining moment in the 30-year conflict known as the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’. The march was organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a nationalist political party that preached non-violence and constitutional reform, and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights ...
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Jan 29, 2022 · This weekend the people of Derry are commemorating the victims of the “Bloody Sunday” massacre in the city, seen as one of the defining moments in Northern Ireland’s 30-year-long conflict. By Vatican News staff reporter.
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