Bloody Sunday , or the Bogside Massacre Killing , was an incident Attack on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry , Northern Ireland , when British soldiers shot Use_firearm 28 unarmed civilians during a protest march Social_event against internment .

On 24 August 2010 , following an eight-year investigation Criminal_investigation , the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published Publishing a report Reporting into the bombing Attack , which stated Statement that the Royal Ulster Constabulary believed in Know the early 1970s that Father James Chesney , a local Roman Catholic priest , was the IRA 's quartermaster and Director of Operations of the South Derry Brigade .

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For other events Social_event , see Perception_active 1996 Derry riots Violence or 2018 Derry riots Violence . ''

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Bogside was a very large communal riot Violence that took place Process_start from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry , Northern Ireland .

The fighting Hostile_encounter was between residents of the Bogside area ( organised Arranging under the Derry Citizens ' Defence Association ) , and the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) along with local unionists .

The war began Process_start with a series of skirmishes between James ’ s Irish Army , which had stayed Temporary_stay loyal in 1688 , and militia forces raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by Irish Protestants : they culminated Process_end in the Siege of Derry , where the Jacobites failed Earnings_and_losses to regain Control control of one of the north ’ s key towns .

The Williamite victories at Derry and the Boyne are still celebrated Social_event by some , mostly Ulster Protestant , unionists in Ireland today .