Bogside is a neighbourhood outside the city walls of Derry , County Londonderry , Northern Ireland . The large gable-wall murals by the Bogside Artists , Free Derry Corner and the Gasyard Féile ( an annual music and arts festival held in a former gasyard ) are popular tourist attractions . The Bogside is a majority Catholic/Irish republican area , and shares a border with the Protestant/Ulster loyalist enclave of the Fountain . The area has been a focus point for many of the events of the Troubles ; in 1969 , a fierce three-day battle against the RUC and local Protestants — known as the Battle of the Bogside — became a starting point of the Troubles . Between 1969 and 1972 , the area along with the Creggan and other Catholic areas became a no-go area for the British Army and police . Both the Official and Provisional IRA openly patrolled the area and local residents often paid subscriptions to both . On the 30 January 1972 , the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association organised a march against internment that was put into effect the year before turned into a blood bath known as Bloody Sunday . The British Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 protesters and injured 14 more ; this resulted in a large surge of recruitment for both wings of the IRA in the city . After Operation Motorman and the end of Free Derry and other no-go areas in Northern Ireland , the Bogside along with the majority of the city experienced frequent street riots and sectarian conflict lasting all the way to the early 1990s . In 1974 , the Official IRA declared an end to their armed campaign , and with volunteers on the ground already mad about the ceasefire in mid 1972 , that crossed the line to hardliners . In result , Seamus Costello and other socialist militants formed the Irish Republican Socialist Movement . This new movement included the Irish National Liberation Army the paramilitary wing of the IRSM . Derry and particularly the Bogside became one of many strongholds for the INLA ; in fact all three volunteers who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike were from Derry or County Londonderry . The Irish People 's Liberation Organisation , a breakaway group of the INLA , made a small but effective presence in Derry engaged in a feud with the INLA in the city along with other areas in Ireland from 1987 to 1992 . The feud ended with the Provisionals stepping in and killing the main Belfast leadership while letting the rest of the organisation dissolve in the rest of Ireland . Throughout the rest of the 1990s , the Bogside became relatively peaceful compared to other localities of Northern Ireland at that time such as Belfast , even though street riots were still frequent
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
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