Where is bogside

At the end of it, the British government decided to base armed soldiers in Derry to keep the peace. By then, relations between Catholics and the Protestant local government had broken down entirely. The 30, residents of the neighborhood declared their area as "Free Derry," independent of British and local government.

They painted murals arguing their cause on the walls of their houses and barricaded the soldiers and police out of the area. The Bogside was so dangerous for outsiders that even the military wouldn't go there without armored vehicles.

Thus, on a Sunday in January , the civil rights march that attracted 20, marchers shouldn't have attracted particular attention, until British troops suddenly opened fire on the marchers, killing 14, in one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles. The soldiers later said they'd been fired upon first, but subsequent investigations found little or no evidence of that. Relations between soldiers and residents remained very poor for some time. The day of the incident was known as "Bloody Sunday," and it galvanized the IRA into further acts of violence throughout the region.

Tensions remained through the s and s, but calmed in the s. Though some are overtly political in nature, many depict simple yet powerful messages of peace. Fifty years ago British troops marched into Derry, Northern Ireland, to break up fighting between police and Catholic civil rights protesters in a move that spurred the decades of unrest known as the Troubles. Tensions were simmering amid high unemployment and poor housing for Catholics — who were also disproportionately blocked from the electoral process.

All I remember 69 is getting packed to go to new house in Belfast. Doherty was five years old when the Battle of the Bogside broke out — and when his father Paddy, a member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association , took to the streets alongside his neighbours.

Only ratepayers got votes. Tensions were running particularly high ahead of the Apprentice Boys parade, which came weeks after the death of Sammy Devenny — who succumbed to his injuries three months after police entered his Bogside home and beat him in front of his children.

The result was three days of rioting that saw the people of the Bogside erect barricades to prevent the RUC from entering. For the first time, police used toxic CS gas to put down the protests — which had also begun to spread to Northern Irish Catholic heartlands in Belfast and elsewhere. The arrival of British troops was a watershed moment for Northern Ireland.

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