Marchers arrested on Bloody Sunday Bloody Sunday
On 30 January 1972, NICRA organised a march to protest against internment in Derry. It was banned but 15,000 people marched anyway. The British army was sent into the Bogside following reports of an IRA sniper. When Catholic youths on the march threw stones at an army barricade, soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing 14 and injuring 13 more. The soldiers claimed they were fired upon, but no one else heard shots and no guns were found. There were protests around the world at the shootings. In Dublin, protesters burned down the British Embassy.
CHECKPOINT! Fr Edward Daly with a dying marcher
1. Describe the Battle of the Bogside. 2. Why were British troops sent onto the streets on Northern Ireland in 1969? 3. What is terrorism? 4. Explain who these groups are: the IRA; the UDA; the SDLP; the DUP. 5. What was internment? 6. What happened on Bloody Sunday 1972?
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I understand how the violence escalated in the early years of the Troubles.
