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Thirteen people were killed in the shootings in January 1972 and 15 others were injured.
A total of 13 civil rights protesters were shot dead by British soldiers in Londonderry on January 30 1972.
Lennon, who was of Irish descent, also spoke at a protest in New York in support of the victims and families of Bloody Sunday. [157] Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday. [158]
Bloody Sunday had a massive and negative impact on the Northern Irish conflict. Support for the IRA rose, and hatred for the Army became widespread amongst the Catholic community. The IRA and other republican paramilitaries used the events to justify a campaign against the British Army and other agents of the British state including the police ...
Families of those killed on Bloody Sunday have vowed they will continue to fight for justice ahead of the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s history.
Colonel Derek Wilford OBE (16 February 1933 – 24 November 2023) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment.. In Derry, [1] Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday he was in command when soldiers within his battalion shot 26 unarmed civilian protesters, killing 13 of them.
Relatives of Bloody Sunday victims watched proceedings from the public gallery of the court. The arraignment took place after a defence application to have the case dismissed ahead of trial was ...
Annette lived with her parents, four brothers and two sisters, in Drumcliffe Avenue in the Bogside.She was a pupil at St. Cecilia's College in Derry.Her siblings recall her as an artistic, bubbly and good natured teen.