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Bloody Sunday
On the morning of Sunday 30 January 1972, around ten thousand people gathered in Londonderry for a civil rights march. 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. -
The Guildford Four
The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were the names of two groups of innocent people whose prision sentences in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 were eventually canceled after long campaigns for justice. -
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 in England. -
Manchester Bombing
The 1996 IRA bombing of Manchester is one of the darkest and most defining moments in the city's modern history. The bomb was left in a van on Corporation Street. -
The Belfast Agreement
It was an agreement that the British and Irish govemments about how Northem Ireland should be govemed and if Northem Ireland should remain in the UK or become part of a united Ireland. -
Omagh Bombing
The bomb that destroyed Omagh town centre in August 1998 was the biggest single terrorist attack in the history of the Troubles in Northem Ireland. Twenty-nine people were killed in the attack, which came less than three months after the people of Northem Ireland had voted "yes" to the Good Friday Agreement.
