Bloody Sunday

On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, 14 men and boys were shot dead (one of whom died 4 months later) and 13 others were wounded by British paratroopers after a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Derry Stormont MP Ivan Cooper to protest against internment without trial of Irishmen, predominantly Catholic, in Northern Ireland. Critics of the action asserted, as did journalists covering the event, that those shot were all unarmed.

More Events from January 30

• January 30 1649
  King Charles I executed at Whitehall.
• January 30, 1845
  Birth of Kitty O'Shea, mistress and later, the wife of Parnell
• January 30, 1859
  Edward Martyn, playwright, co-founder of Irish Literary Theatre, and Sinn Féin president, is born in Tulira, Co. Galway
• January 30, 1864
  The National Gallery of Ireland opens
• January 30, 1865
  Birth of John Hughes, sculptor, in Dublin
• January 30, 1900
  The Irish Party reunites ten years after it split
• January 30, 1920
  Tomás MacCurtain is elected Lord Mayor of Cork for Sinn Féin
• January 30, 1947
  Jim Larkin, Irish labor leader dies
• January 30, 1984
  Death of Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners
• January 30, 1998
  Buried in the sand at Lahinch for almost 100 years, the ship-wrecked Elizabeth McClean emerges to allow a salvage operation to take its valuable cargo. The 58-foot schooner, laden down with Liscannor stone, sank off the Clare coast in 1904, bound for Glas