Whilst at university he became involved in the non-violent protests organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association . Maginness participated in the famous civil rights march in Derry in 1972 at which British troops killed 14 unarmed civilians . This event , now termed Bloody Sunday , has gone down in Northern Ireland politics as one of the turning points in The Troubles that contributed to the development of the Provisional IRA
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Alban Maginness