Angry crowds burned down the British Embassy in Dublin in protest at the shooting by British troops of 13 civilians in Derry , Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday ( 1972 ) and in 1981 protesters tried to storm the British Embassy in response to the IRA hunger strikes of that year . In 1978 , the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) trial '' Ireland v. the United Kingdom '' ruled that the techniques used in interrogating prisoners in Northern Ireland " amounted to a practice of inhuman and degrading treatment " , in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights
Bloody Sunday ( 1972 )
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Ireland–United Kingdom relations