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Bloody Sunday remembrance plaque at Croke Park. Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. More than 30 people were killed or fatally wounded.
Bloody Sunday (Croke Park massacre) Dublin: 14 60–70 part of the Irish War of Independence; Spectators were shot by members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Auxiliary Division at a Gaelic football match. This was the first Irish mass-killing to be called "Bloody Sunday". 1921, 10 July Bloody Sunday (Lower Falls massacre) Belfast: 17 ...
Along with Peadar Clancy and Conor Clune, he was killed by his captors in Dublin Castle on Sunday, 21 November 1920, a day known as Bloody Sunday that also saw the killing of a network of British intelligence agents by the "Squad" unit of the Irish Republican Army and the killing of 14 people in Croke Park by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). [1]
"The Croke Park Massacre on the afternoon of Bloody Sunday is usually blamed on the Auxiliaries. While the police raiding party was composed in part of Temporary Cadets from Depot Company and commanded by an Auxiliary officer, Major Mills, eyewitness reports make it clear that ordinary police did most of the shooting at Croke Park.[22]"
The findings of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday turned the discredited 1972 Widgery report on its head. It exonerated the victims and delivered a damning account of the conduct of soldiers ...
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Here are some of the key dates in the decades-long campaign for justice by the families of civilians killed by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in January 1972. – January 30 1972
Bloody Sunday (1920) ... Croke Park massacre; R. Rineen ambush; S. Sack of Balbriggan This page was last edited on 8 October 2024, at 00:47 (UTC). Text is ...