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Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, [1] was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, [n 1] Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident.
Margo Harkin and James Nash while filming Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary. After producing the banned documentary Mother Ireland in 1988, Harkin co-wrote and directed her first drama, Hush-a-Bye Baby (1990), which won “Best Drama” at the International Celtic Film Festival the first of several international awards including The Ecumenical Jury ...
Bloody Sunday is a 2002 film written and directed by Paul Greengrass based around the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland.Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January.
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
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 ...
The bereaved families will gather on Sunday morning to recreate the route of the civil rights march which ended in tragedy 50 years ago. A number of the families told the PA news agency that the ...
Television documentary H3: Les Blair: Dean Lennox Kelly, Mark O'Halloran, Depiction of the 1981 Irish hunger strike. [84] 2001 Bloody Sunday: Paul Greengrass: James Nesbit, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley: Depiction of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. [85] 2002 Television film Sunday: Charles McDougall: Ciarán McMenamin ...
The shootings were later referred to as Belfast's Bloody Sunday, a reference to the killing of civilians by the same battalion in Derry a few months later, known as Bloody Sunday. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 1972 inquests had returned an open verdict on all of the killings, [ 3 ] but a 2021 coroner's report found that all those killed had been innocent and ...