The Murals of Derry

The second largest city in Northern Ireland, Londonderry is divided into 2 sections, with green and orange on one side and red and white on the other. It has played an important role in Irish history, with the conflict here between the Catholics and Protestants, and the troubles began here in 1969 with the barricades going up in the Bogside, causing a fight with the British army that lasted several days. One of the murals in the Bogside shows a young man wielding a petrol bomb. Everyone knows the U2 song Sunday Bloody Sunday, which tells the story of 14 people being killed by the army on Sunday, 30 January 1972, in a civil rights demonstration.