The Bloody Sunday

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The Bloody Sunday

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“Sheer unadulterated murder"

-MAJOR HUBERT O’ NEILL

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3 Introduction and NICRA

4 Internment

5 Parachute regiment and Bogside

6-7 Bloody Sunday

8 Consequences of Bloody Sunday

9-10 Why did it take so long for another inquiry to be set up?

11 Bibliography

Q1. What happened on Bloody Sunday?

In order to fully understand what took place on Bloody Sunday I feel

that we need to examine the events leading up to this contentious

event.

Bloody Sunday is named after the events that occurred on Sunday 30

January 1972 when British soldiers shot dead 13 men and injured 14

others. A further victim died later. The killings took place in the

predominantly nationalist city of Derry.

The victims had been taking part in an illegal march against

internment without trial. It had been organised by the Northern

Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) and was both a protest

against internment and a protest against the ban on the right to

march.

NICRA (Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association)

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The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was formed in January

1967 as a response to four decades of Unionist discrimination against

Catholics. They were undoubtedly influenced by Martin Luther King’s “I

have a dream” speech. The organisation protested against the Unionist

government’s treatment of Catholics. Their demands were simple:

· One Man, One Vote

· End gerrymandering[1]

· End discrimi...

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...by Richard Norton-Taylor

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[1] Gerrymandering – arranging the boundaries of electoral districts

in such a way as to distort the vote

[2] This Act was the source of all emergency legislation in Northern

Ireland until replaced by the 1973 Act. Passed by Home Rule

government.

[3] B-Specials – part time armed Special Police Constables that were

in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1970

[4] Sharpeville - The savage massacre of African patriots at

Sharpeville and other places in South Africa on March 21, 1960

[5] Bernadette Devlin is a Northern Ireland republican political

activist. She served as a Member of Parliament at Westminster from

1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency, and is a leading critic

of the Good Friday Agreement.

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