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Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? - Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? - Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 (Paperback, New Ed)
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An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time,
narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched,
who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant
narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so
tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in
Ireland. Free Derry Corner, 30 January 1972, site of one of the
pivotal events in modern British history. A civil rights march was
led into an ambush. Thirteen civilians died, many killed by the
British Army. It was the first instance of the British Army firing
on its own citizens since the Peterloo Massacre in 1819[chk]. It
ruined British authority in the province for a generation and was
the single identifiable cause of the rejuvenated armed struggle
that would last for the rest of the century. Yet it is shrouded in
mystery and legend, in deliberate disinformation and deceit, in
political interpretation from all sides involved. The events of
Bloody Sunday, as it became known are told here as a vivdly
dramatic narrative for the first time. Interspersed within the
unfolding disaster is the story of the Troubles in Northern
Ireland, a complex history revealed by two incisive and expertly
informed writers who first researched events in Derry for the
Sunday Times in 1972. Bloody Sunday is the most contested,
mythologised and symbolic event in modern Irish history. Here, for
the first time with the benefit of modern forensic science, new
witnesses interviewed and against the background of the Savile
report, is the truth of what happened.
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