The Background to Bloody Sunday

The Background to Bloody Sunday

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• Chapter 6: Introduction — 103

• A note on terminology — 6.5

• Chapter 7: The period up to July 1971 — 105

• The formation of Northern Ireland — 7.1

• The city of Londonderry — 7.14

• The post-war period to the 1960s — 7.21

• The birth of the civil rights movement — 7.27

• Protest marches and violence — 7.34

• The developing demands of the civil rights movement — 7.47

• The reforms of November 1968 — 7.50

• The People’s Democracy march — 7.55

• The Cameron Enquiry — 7.59

• Political developments, further violence and the deployment of the Army — 7.62

• The Scarman Inquiry — 7.74

• The Hunt Committee and its recommendations — 7.81

• The split in the IRA and Sinn Féin — 7.86

• Violence and unrest in Londonderry and Belfast during 1970 — 7.88

• Changes in the political situation in 1970 — 7.95

• Events during the first six months of 1971 — 7.97

• The shooting of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie — 7.107

• Chapter 8: The period from August to December 1971 — 142

• Government and security structures — 8.2

• The relationship between the Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary — 8.29

• Internment — 8.35

• Legality of the ban on marches — 8.47

• The response to internment — 8.49

• The period of containment — 8.56

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• The treatment of internees — 8.66

• The tripartite talks — 8.71

• General Carver’s military appreciation of the security situation — 8.77

• The meeting between the British and Northern Irish Prime Ministers on 7th October 1971 — 8.89

• Major General Ford’s Directive — 8.100

• The Northern Ireland Government’s Green Paper — 8.106

• Brigadier MacLellan’s Directive — 8.110

• The Yellow Card — 8.121

• The GEN 47 meeting on 11th November 1971 — 8.124

• Edward Heath’s Guildhall speech — 8.126

• The visit of Harold Wilson to Northern Ireland — 8.127

• Further GEN 47 Committee meetings — 8.132

• The end of the containment phase in Londonderry — 8.139

• Major General Ford’s December 1971 visit to Londonderry — 8.142

• Reginald Maudling’s meeting at Headquarters Northern Ireland — 8.161

• General Carver’s visit to Northern Ireland — 8.171

• Meeting of the Ministry of Defence’s Northern Ireland Policy Group — 8.180

• Edward Heath’s visit to Londonderry — 8.185

• Proposals for a political initiative — 8.186

• The resumption of marches — 8.193

• Chapter 9: The weeks before Bloody Sunday — 214

• The gravity of civil disorder in Londonderry by the end of 1971 and in early 1972 — 9.1

• The Army in Northern Ireland in January 1972 — 9.39

• The role of the Royal Ulster Constabulary — 9.64

• The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association — 9.65

• Events during January 1972 — 9.87