-
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday, happened in Derry, Northen Ireland, the 30th January. That day, was organised, by the NICRA, march against the people in jail without know if is from the IRA or not and because of the civil rights, A group far from the march, started to throw stones to the other people, and the soldiers, made the same but with gas, guns, and water. Thirteen people were died, and more than thirty, injured because of the British Army"s gunshots. -
The guildford four
Video on Youtube.The 5th of October, was an explotion in a pub in Guildford, England. In this event died five people and a lot of people were injured. Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson confessed because the police wanted to have the responsible of that. To make them confess, they torturated them. Approximately, fourteen years later, with the dead of Conlon, the police discovered that they didn"t do that. -
Birmingham Pub Bombings
On the night of 21 November 1974 IRA bombs exploded at two pubs in Birmingham city centre. Twenty-one people were killed and 182 were injured in what at the time was the worst ever terrorist attack on English soil. In this event, were accused six men who became known as the Birmingham Six without proves and in 1975, were to jail, for the whole life. A man said that was innocent, but the polices made abuses to him. After sixteen years, their convictions were accepted. Conviction-Condena -
Manchester bombing
The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Saturday 15 June 1996 in Manchester, England. The bomb was placed in Corporation Street in Manchester city, making big damages. The IRA had sent telephoned warnings about 90 minutes before the bomb detonated. -
The Belfast Agreement
The Belfast Agreement is also known as the Good Friday Agreement, because it was reached on Good Friday, 10 April 1998. It was an agreement, between the British (with Tony Blair as Prime Minister), Irish governments and most of the political parties in Northern Ireland, about how Northern Ireland should be governed. Most of the political Irish parties decided to stop fighting, left the guns, and the majority of the British soldiers, go away from Ireland. -
Omagh Bombing
The bomb that devastated Omagh town centre in August 1998 was the biggest atrocityin the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people were killed in the attack. That bombing happened while was the Peace Agreement (10th April of the same year). That attack was important because while happened that, was happening the peace process and made that would be longer and more difficult. -
Peace at last
Video on Youtube After be two years talking, the Belfast Agreement was signed at Stormont, Belfast. The Loyalist Volunteer Force was against that agreement. But the troubles didn"t finish, because there was another bombimg in Omagh. Finally, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) declared a ceasefire.
