Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, occurred on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen men
Catholic priest Edward Daly waving a blood-stained white handkerchief as a white flag while trying to escort the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy to safety
The Bogside in 1981, overlooking the area where many of the victims were shot. On the right of the picture is the south side of Rossville Flats and in the middle distance is Glenfada Park.
Bloody Sunday memorial in the Bogside
The belt worn by Patrick Doherty. The notch was made by the bullet that killed him.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in
Bloody Sunday (1972)
…1 Para"), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months earlier. The incident became one of the most significant events of the Troubles. It was the highest number of people killed in a single shooting during the conflict and is regarded as the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish…
The Battle of the Boyne (12 July 1690) by Jan van Huchtenburg
Protestant demonstrators burning an effigy of Daniel O’Connell, an incident that sparked the Belfast riots of 1864[self-published source?]
The Ulster Covenant was issued in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill in September 1912.
Sir James Craig, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, who said, "All I boast is that we are a Protestant Parliament and Protestant State"