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Student Resource Center College Edition Expanded Document - 0 views

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  • Quick SearchFind: Related SubjectsBloody Sunday, 1972 (26) British History, 1945- (71) Civil Rights (11826) Civil War (8262) Irish History (214) Irish Republican Army (2032) Northern Irish History (36) Oppression (Politics) (166) Political Protest (2503) Religious Conflict (451) Terrorism (33269) Violence (5879)  TabsMarkPreviousNext var selectedString=""; var scrollbar=false; var selectedItems = false; var selectAll = false; var keyReleased = false; var selectedString2 = ""; var exceedLimit = false; var ctrlPressed = false; var checkStatusFF = false; var maxSelectedTextSize = ""; function addInstructions() { instructions = "Instructions to be followed while playing the audio. "; instructions += "1. Do not double click the mouse button. "; instructions += "2. Do not select any part of the document again. "; instructions += "3. Refresh the page and click the play button if you want to listen to the full document. "; instructions += "End of Instructions. "; } function getSelectedText() { if (document.all ) { // MSIE 4+ selectedString = document.selection.createRange().text; if(selectedString != "" && selectedString != null) { selectedString = selectedString; } else selectedString = ""; } if (document.getSelection) { // older Mozilla versions selectedString2 = document.getSelection(); if(selectedString2 != "" && selectedString2 != null) { selectedString = selectedString2; } else { selectedString = ""; exceedLimit = false; } } else if (window.getSelection) { // recent Mozilla versions selectedString2 = window.getSelection(); if(selectedString2 != "" && selectedString2 != null) { selectedString = selectedString2; } else { selectedString = ""; exceedLimit = false; } } } function checkTextLimit() { if(selectedString.length > '1000' && exceedLimit == false) { alert("The audio player is limited to selecting " + '1000' + " characters. To listen please make a smaller selection and then click on the play button. If not using the listen feature please ignore this message."); exceedLimit = true; return ; } } function refreshPlayer() { if( scrollbar != true && selectedString !=null && selectedString != "" ) { showPlayer(); scrollbar = true; } } function showPlayer() { if(selectedString.length>0 && selectAll != true && selectedString.length );
  • On January 30, 1972, a protest rally organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, to demand an end to the internment without trial of suspected terrorists resulted in a clash with British troops
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      Becky B on 23 Nov 09
       
      On January 30, 1972, the Northern Civil Rights Association organized a rally in Londonderry, Northern Ireland to protest British imprisonment of suspected terrorists without trial.
  • Thirteen of the protestors, all Catholics, died
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      Becky B on 23 Nov 09
       
      Of the thirteen civilians who died, all were Catholic.
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  • This movement took as its model the civil rights marches of the American South, and endorsed the nonviolent tactics of Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • They argued that only violent resistance could protect the Catholic minority from the Protestant-leaning "B Special" police militia, and later, as they began to take form, from the various Protestant paramilitary groups.
  • This measure, permitted under the Special Powers Act of 1922, was declared necessary by Prime Minister Brian Faulkner to bring the increasingly militant I.R.A. under control.
  • The internments elicited responses from both foreign and domestic critics, and soon observers alleged that the internees were being kept under brutal conditions. Those charges provided the immediate occasion for the demonstration of January 30, 1972.
  • At about 3:30 P.M., however, a group of Derry youths broke away from the main column and confronted the three army barricades which had been erected to contain the march. British paratroopers were pelted with stones and bottles, and they responded with tear gas and fire hoses. Shortly thereafter at least one shot was fired in the direction of the troops. The paratroopers then crossed the barricades, in what had been intended as a move to arrest demonstrators, and began firing their weapons into the crowd.
  • Becky B on 23 Nov 09
     
    Description of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry.
Becky B

Timeline of the Northern Ireland Troubles and peace process - Wikipedia, the free encyc... - 1 views

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  • The Ulster Volunteer Force issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army, and noted that the group comprised "heavily armed Protestants dedicated to this cause".[6]
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      Formal beginning of war.
  • The British Ministry of Defence grants Northern Ireland Army reinforcements for the first time since the Second World War.[10][11]
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      British forces become involved.
  • The British Army was deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland.
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      More British intervention.
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  • 67 year old Francis McClusky was killed by an RUC officer. Many consider this the first death of the Troubles.[12]
  • Bloody Sunday - 27 civilians were shot, of whom 14 were killed by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry.
  • After two years of intensive talks, the Belfast Agreement (also known as the 'Stormont Agreement' or 'Good Friday Agreement') was signed at Stormont in Belfast.
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      Becky B on 12 Nov 09
       
      Official end of war.
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    Useful timeline providing links to important events during the Troubles. Can be used as a jump page for other research, providing prompts for topics.
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  • When the U.S. civil rights movement began to influence Europe in the late 1960s, Northern Irish people started to lobby the government for equal rights in the United Kingdom. The British responded by sending in the British Army to quell street demonstrations that erupted in 1969. New measures, including internment without trial, a mandatory curfew, and a military presence at check points and guard towers, made the inhabitants in Northern Ireland feel like they were living in a war zone.
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      I like bananas.
  • The Irish Republican Army (IRA)
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      Side 1
  • Ulster Defense Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force
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      Side 2
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  • Although the British acknowledged limited home government in Northern Ireland, they failed to prevent a resumption of violence.
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      Attempt to end war failed.
  • tensions continue to remain in the streets of Northern Ireland.
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      Answer: was peace effective?
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    Basic information, including some vocabulary an major players, on the Troubles, along with a brief history.
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  • After the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, many of the paramilitary organizations declared a cease-fire. In the years since, many of these organizations attempted to govern Northern Ireland in a power-sharing parliament with their former opponents. While this government has broken down on numerous occasions, recent events suggest that political violence might be a thing of the past for Northern Ireland.
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      Becky B on 12 Nov 09
       
      Answer: what happened after Belfast?
  • On three separate occasions (1641-53, 1689-1691, 1798) over a two-hundred-year period, brutal sectarian warfare broke out between the Protestant settlers and the native Catholics, with many atrocities committed by both sides. Protestant superiority in both manpower and weaponry led to the defeat of the Catholics on each occasion.
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      Becky B on 12 Nov 09
       
      Answer: history of the conflict?
  • Throughout much of the nineteenth century, Catholics (as well as a small number of Protestants) began to agitate for Home Rule, a form of limited self-government for all of Ireland. Protestants in Northern Ireland were vehemently opposed to Home Rule, considering it the first step toward an independent, majority Catholic Ireland.
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      Answer: issues at stake?
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  • With the appearance of British troops in Northern Ireland in 1970, the violence increased.
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      Answer: what sparked the attacks?
  • Moderates on both sides called for negotiations, but the growing cycle of violence left them with little chance of being heard.
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      Becky B on 12 Nov 09
       
      Answer: did anyone try to stop it?
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    General information coupled with a specific focus on the arguments at hand; more information can be found in the relevant Point and Counterpoint articles.
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