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James Nesbitt in Bloody Sunday On January 30, 1972 members of the British Army fired upon unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry, killing 14 people, 13 outright, and one who would die later from his wounds. The marchers, about 15,000 strong, had been protesting internment without trial, which was introduced in Northern Ireland in August 1971, and involved mass British army arrests of more than 340 people from Catholic and nationalist backgrounds. Bloody Sunday, would come to be seen as a key event in the history of the Troubles, in that it escalated the conflict. It would take until April 10, 1998, and thousands of lives, before the Good Friday Agreement, brokered with the help of American George Mitchell, helped to bring an end to the conflict.

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