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Bloody Sunday, demonstration in Londonderry (Derry), Northern Ireland, on Sunday, Janu, by Roman Catholic civil rights supporters that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others (one of the injured later died).
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Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 civilians during a protest march against internment without trial....Bloody Sunday (1972)
At this time two British soldiers from a machine gun platoon fired five shots between them from a derelict building on William Street wounding 15-year-old Damien Donaghey in the thigh.
A microcosm of the War of Independence; the events of Bloody Sunday on 21st November 1920 marked a decisive turning-point in Irish history. In Croke Park, the Dublin and Tipperary football teams lined out for a great challenge match.
In all, 14 men were killed outright, and another was mortally wounded, while five others were wounded but survived.
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Some sources have stated that 525 police were killed in the conflict, including 152 Black and Tans and 44 Auxiliaries. This figure of total police killed would also include 72 members of the Ulster Special Constabulary killed between 1920 and 1922 and 12 members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
The Black and Tans employed brutal tactics in an attempt suppress the Irish Republican Army's guerilla war, massacring civilians and burning Irish towns. ... As a result of their mistreatment of the Irish people, Black and Tan is pejorative term in Ireland and calling someone a Black and Tan is an insult.
The song uses the term "Black and Tans" in the pejorative sense against people living in Dublin, both Catholic and Protestant, who were pro-British. ... The most notable recording was in 1972 by the Irish traditional music group, The Wolfe Tones, which re-charted in 2020.
In May 1921, Ireland was partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act, which created Northern Ireland. A ceasefire (or 'truce') began on 11 July 1921....
Cromwell imposed an extremely harsh settlement on the Irish Catholic population. This was because of his deep religious antipathy to the Catholic religion and to punish Irish Catholics for the rebellion of 1641, in particular the massacres of Protestant settlers in Ulster.
Some claim that there really was no food shortage in Ireland in the late 1840s. The British government, so this view goes, promoted the export of food from Ireland with the deliberate aim of starving the Irish people. ... With the potato ruined, Ireland simply did not have enough land to feed her people.
GDP per head in Ireland is measured by the Irish government – and accepted by international organisations – as being 91 per cent higher than the UK, indicating at face value that Ireland is almost twice as rich as the UK.
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The latest global standings show Ireland's per capita GDP comes in at fifth highest of 182 countries, or third (after Qatar and Singapore) if we exclude countries with population of less than half a million. Within Europe, we are ranked first.
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The U.S. will remain richer than China for the next 50 years or more, says economist. The U.S. will remain wealthier than China — measured by GDP per capita — for at least the next 50 years, said Simon Baptist, global chief economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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