This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, one of the darkest days and defining episodes of the Troubles in which 13 people were shot dead by British soldiers in the streets of Derry.
The infamous events of 30 January 1972 began at 2.45pm when approximately 15,000 mostly Catholic marchers convened at Bishop’s Field in the Creggan area of the city to take part in a demonstration organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to protest the internment policy introduced the previous August, which empowered the British Army to imprison suspected IRA members without trial in response to escalating violence.
