Eyewitness Bloody Sunday

by Don Mullan and John Scally

Book Overview

Thirteen unarmed civil rights marchers were shot dead by the British Army's Parachute Regiment on January 30, 1972 on a day that came to be known as Bloody Sunday. This book recalls the events with eyewitness accounts. Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of that day, this book also examines the findings of the Widgery Tribunal of Inquiry, set up to investigate the events. Among those interviewed are adults who attended the march, schoolchildren,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863275869
• ISBN13: 9780863275869
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An important book

It is hard to say "I love this book" because what it describes is so terrible. But it gives voice to the people who were in Derry on January 29, 1972 and allows them to describe in their own words how it came to pass that the British Army opened fire on a civil rights march, killing 14 people. This book, and its editor, share a great deal of the credit for reopening the official inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday and causing the British government to at last take a long, hard look at whether this terrible event ever should have happened.