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Bloody Sunday
On 30 January 1972, a civil rights demonstration through the streets of Londonderry in north-west Northern Ireland ended with the shooting dead of thirteen civilians by the British Army.
An official government ask began two weeks later but was Extensively considered a whitewash, leading to a recienty public ask in 1998 that took 12 years to report and absolved the victims.The British army killed 14 citizens and seriously injured 2 others. -
THE GUILDFORD FOUR
Four Irish people were bad arrested and tortured after the IRA exploded a bomb in a pub in Guildford, England, killing 5 people. Gerry Conlon made a false confession after the British police tortured him. He spent 15 years in prison until he was finally found not guilty and released in 1989. His father was also accused of conspiracy and arrested. He died in prison. -
BIRMINGHAM PUB BOMBINGS
22 civilians were killed when bombs exploded at two pubs in Birmingham.Alan Hill was on red watch at Highgate fire station when they received the call after the first bomb went off at the Mulberry Bush pub. Many Brummies lived in fear following numerous IRA bomb threats and tensions were high. He knew it was likely to be for real this time around. As the fire engine approached Corporation Street the second bomb went off. -
MANCHESTER BOMBING
A bomb by the IRA destroyed a big part of the city centre and injured over 200 people.The bomb was the second biggest to have exploded on England -
THE BELFAST AGREEMENT
Also known as "Good Friday Agreement", it was signed in Belfast after two years of intensive talks between the two sides. Was a pact between the British and the Irish about how Northern Ireland should be governed. -
OMAGH BOMBING
, 15th August, 1998: A dissident republican group called the real IRA exploded a bomb in Omagh.Twenty-nine people died in the attack.
