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Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:01 +0000Eyewitness in Derry 30th January 1972
Within hours of the events of Bloody Sunday, the Civil Rights Association in Derry were recording first hand testimonies of what happened that day. Taken from the Massacre in Derry booklet we carry the accounts of each of the 14 Bloody Sunday killing...
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:58:13 +0000Have you forgotten Bloody Sunday?
An Phoblacht has never stopped reporting and writing on Bloody Sunday over the last 50years. In this piece written 34 years ago Kevin McCool revisits some key moments of Blood Sunday.
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:31:27 +0000‘I’ll never forget his face’
We republish an article from 1983, where Pat Deeney interviews Peggy Deery, one of the wounded who survived Bloody Sunday. Peggy died in 1988. Injuries received on Bloody Sunday seriously impacted on her health for the rest of her life.
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:41:32 +0000Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Butcher’s Dozen’ 50 years on
Eminent Irish poet Thomas Kinsella died in December 2021, just before the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Widgery Tribunal and the poem he wrote and published swiftly in response.
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:04:52 +0000Bloody Sunday in the British media
In the hours and days after Bloody Sunday the scale and intensity of disinformation spread about that day’s events by the British Government was unprecedented. Mícheál Mac Donnacha recounts some of the outcomes of this across the British media in...
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:39:24 +0000Remembering Bloody Sunday: Robert Ballagh’s “The Thirtieth of January”
Robert Ballagh’s new painting remembering Bloody Sunday is to hang in Derry’s Guild Hall. Jenny Farrell explores the link between art and politics in “The Thirtieth of January.
Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:22:00 +0000‘There wasn’t the slightest provocation’ – Fulvio Grimaldi on Bloody Sunday
“I took pictures of this, I took recordings of this, and there is no doubt whatsoever that there wasn’t the slightest provocation”. Italian photographer Fulvio Grimaldi’s firsthand account of Bloody Sunday.
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:04:37 +0000Black Mountain and Other Stories, by Gerry Adams
It is always with some trepidation that I pick up a book written by someone I know. The first question that springs to mind is, “Is it any good”. Secondly, “Will it reveal something new about my friend that I didn’t know”, or maybe worse, ...
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:27:49 +0000The long road to justice for the Bloody Sunday victims
This week An Phoblacht marks the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday murders in Derry by the British Army's Parachute Regiment. We carry here Derry republican Mitchel McLaughlin's powerful article on the long road to justice. This article is also a...
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:17:19 +0000British Government indicted in latest collusion report
The latest Northern Ireland Ombudsman report has found that British state forces were working with loyalist murder gangs that killed 19 people, across counties Antrim, Derry, Tyrone and Donegal between 1989 and 1993