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THOSE ARE REAL BULLETS EB
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- I. The Alarm
- II. City Under Siege
- III. Operation Forecast
- IV. The Decision to Put Civilians at Risk
- V. Barrier 14
- VI. How Could Anyone Pick on Me as a Gunman
- VII. Move! Move! Move!
- VIII. Shoot Me! Shoot Me!
- IX. The Rubble Barricade
- X. Don’t Move, Pretend You’re Dead
- XI. I Can’t Stand This Any Longer
- XII. A Token Retaliation
- XIII. I’ll Never Turn My Back on a Para
- XIV. For God’s Sake Hurry Up, I’m Dying
- XV. Going Home
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Selected Bibliography
- Note on Sources
- About the Authors
- Praise
- Also by the Author
- About the Publisher