![]() ![]() July 7, 1972: Unsuccessful secret peace talks take place between the IRA and British government in Chelsea’s Cheyne Walk, the first meeting of the two groups since 1921. The shooting lead hundreds to join the IRA. The British Army falsely called the victims gunmen and bombers-a report finalized in 2010 found none of the dead were threats. 30, 1972: Known as Bloody Sunday, 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights demonstrators are killed, with 15 wounded, by British paratroopers during a civil rights march in Derry in Northern Ireland. The Provisional IRA soon becomes known as simply the IRA, while the other faction, known as the Original IRA, quickly diminishes in stature. 28, 1969: Aiming to protect the Catholic minority from discrimination from loyalist militants and the Protestant-Majority police force, the Provisional Army Council, officially splinters off from the IRA. Bloody Sunday Leads to New IRA Recruits Lord Mountbatten Is Assassinatedĭec. ![]()
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