The British Army had sealed off the original route so the march organisers led most of the demonstrators towards 'Free Derry Corner' in the nationalist Bogside area of the city. Despite this, a number of people continued on towards an army barricade where local youths threw stones at soldiers, who responded with a water cannon, CS gas and rubber bullets.
As the riot began to disperse, soldiers of the 1st Parachute Regiment were ordered to move in and arrest as many of the rioters as possible.
In the minutes that followed, some of these paratroopers opened fire on the crowd, killing thirteen men and injuring 13 others, one of whom died some months later. British troops had been sent into Derry as a peacekeeping force in August and had initially been welcomed by the predominantly Catholic nationalist community as a preferable alternative to what they saw as the discrimination of the local Northern Ireland security forces.
The residents of the Bogside area of the city had declared it 'Free Derry' and refused to recognise the authority of the Northern Ireland government, led by a unionist majority that drew most of its support from the Protestant community.
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Opposition to policies such as detention of terrorist suspects without trial internment and the alleged rigging of electoral wards to favour Protestant voters gerrymandering had inspired a nascent civil rights movement across Northern Ireland. With support for the demands of the civil rights movement so strong among local people, Derry was an obvious choice for a mass demonstration.
About ten thousand people gathered in the Creggan area of Derry on the morning of Sunday 30 January After prolonged skirmishes between groups of local youths and the army at barricades set up to prevent the march reaching its intended destination Guildhall Square in the heart of the city , paratroopers moved in to make arrests.
During this operation, they opened fire on the crowd, killing thirteen and wounding 13 others.
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Inside the school the rules are strict, and A Chronicle of growing up in Derry, from childhood through adolescence, to adulthood and one of the most remembered days in the history of Ireland. Inside the school the rules are strict, and outside the school there are rules as well. Different rules, scrappy, and managed by the boys themselves. Poverty and restlessness surrounds them all, and the governments that rule over them are brawling just as much as the boys.
The reality of living in the Bogside as young Irish adults continues, with the unremitting tendrils of competing ideologies creeping into the corners of their lives. Street barricades continue to arise, and stones continue to pelt the authorities, amid a growing faction of men who believe bullets and bombs are the needed push back against the weaponry of the police and soldiers.
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The governments are ineffectual, and escalating conflicts between competing beliefs continue to affect everyone in the Bogside. Between the various factions of ideology and their Irish historical past, there is a day that is coming to meet them in their late adolescence, which will usher in their adulthood with a shocking finality. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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