Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...
"John Hume and other civil rights leaders were appealing ... Independent News and Media/GETTY IMAGES The army was deployed to Northern Ireland in August 1969 Many young Protestants on the other ...
On Jan. 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead in Londonderry, Northern Ireland by British Army paratroopers, which eventually became known as “Bloody Sunday.” After mounting ...