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Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, [1] was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, [n 1] Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident.
Bloody Sunday (1913), an attack by police against protesting trade unionists in Dublin, Ireland during the Dublin lock-out; Bloody Sunday (1920), a day of violence in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence when police, British Army and Auxiliary forces opened fire on the crowd of a Gaelic Football match killing 14 people and injuring at least 80 others
Cooper organised a civil rights and anti-internment march for 30 January 1972, which was to develop into Bloody Sunday, in which fourteen unarmed civilians were murdered by soldiers from the Parachute Regiment on duty in Derry, who opened fire on the crowd.
One of the Troubles' key events, "Bloody Sunday", occurred in Derry in 1972. On 30 January, 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment. Thirteen died immediately. Many witnesses including bystanders and journalists testify that all those shot were unarmed.
Victim of Bloody Sunday massacre Gerard Vincent Donaghy (20 February 1954 – 30 January 1972), sometimes transcribed as Gerald Donaghey , was a native of the Bogside , Derry who was killed by members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland .
The organisers' original intention was that the march would form up on the Creggan Estate behind a coal delivery lorry carrying the main speakers and bearing a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) banner.
Albert Turner (February 29, 1936 – April 13, 2000) was an American civil rights activist and an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. [1] He was Alabama field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped lead the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery; and assisted others escape beating during the Bloody Sunday.
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" was released in March 1972. It was considered a rebel song and thus not played by the Republic of Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ . [ 2 ] Despite this, it reached number one in the Irish Singles Chart on 29 April 1972.