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==Events== *January 17 - The "West Belfast Seven" Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) internees escape from prison ship ''Maidstone'' moored in Belfast Lough by swimming ashore. *January 30 - Bloody Sunday: Thirteen unarmed civilians are shot dead in Derry as British paratroopers open fire on a banned civil rights march. A fourteenth, John Johnston, is also to die some months later after having been shot by a paratrooper. *February 9 - A day of disruption takes place in Northern Ireland as people take to the streets in protest. *February 10 - The IRA announces a ceasefire. *February 12 - William Craig launches the Ulster Vanguard movement in Lisburn. *March 28 - Northern Ireland Parliament suspended after Prime Minister Brian Faulkner resigns. Direct rule introduced. *April 19 - A report by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, into the Bloody Sunday shootings exonerates the British troops of blame because the demonstration had been illegal. *May 30 - The Official Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland. *June 3 - A Protestant demonstration in Derry against the creation of "no-go" areas in the city ends in violence. *June 13–14 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army proposes a ceasefire. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), as intermediaries, make offer to British, who accept terms.〔 *July 9 - End of British–IRA ceasefire.〔 *July 21 - Bloody Friday: Nine people die and over one hundred are injured in a series of Provisional IRA explosions in Belfast city centre. *July 31 * * Operation Motorman, 4:00 AM: British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry and Newry.〔(CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict - 1972 )〕 * * Claudy bombing (“Bloody Monday”), 10:00 AM: Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, kill six immediately with three dying later in hospital. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that that a local Catholic priest was an IRA officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the authorities. *July - Shankill Butchers begin killing Catholics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) )〕 *September 10 - Three British soldiers are killed and four injured when the IRA blows up their Saracen armoured personnel carrier at Sanaghanroe near Dungannon. *September 25 - Darlington conference on the future of Northern Ireland opens. *1972 is the worst year for casualties in The Troubles, with 497 people killed (including 130 British soldiers) and 4,876 injured.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1972 in Northern Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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