Ach, I really should have posted this in the morning for UK folks, but... I noticed this sub needed a post, and this one was next on me list. :S

Ah, well. Hope someone from Eire et al catches it. Everything here comes from Danny Dutch's brilliant foto / info series.

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On the cold afternoon of 30 January 1972, the streets of the Bogside area of Derry became the backdrop for one of the darkest days in modern British and Irish history. What began as a peaceful civil rights march ended with thirteen unarmed civilians shot dead and at least fifteen others injured after British Army paratroopers opened fire on the demonstrators. Another man, John Johnston, would succumb to his wounds four months later.

The events of that day, known ever since as Bloody Sunday, shook Northern Ireland to its core. It radicalised communities, deepened sectarian divisions, and fuelled the armed struggle of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). It was the single worst shooting of the Troubles by state forces and remains a symbol of injustice for many. The consequences reverberated for decades, not least because of the initial whitewashing of events by the British government, which only in 2010 finally acknowledged that the killings were “unjustified and unjustifiable”.

This is the story of how the march began, how the gunfire started, and how the fallout from that day changed Northern Ireland forever...

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And the rest of the article here:
https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/bloody-sunday-50-years-on