Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday. The Guide to Free Derry. , On 30 January 1972 the ‘elite’ British Parachute Regiment opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march along this street, killing 14 unarmed marchers and wounding 14 more. The dead and wounded were labelled gunmen and bombers by a partisan British judicial inquiry, and it was to be another 38 years before a second public inquiry forced the British government to admit what everyone else already knew, that all those killed and injured were innocent, and the shootings were “unjustified and unjustifiable.”, Domhnach Na Fola , Ar an 30 Eanáir 1972, thosaigh scothReisiment Pharaisiúit na Breataine ag lámhach ar mhórshiúl síochánta na gceart sibhialta feadh na sráide seo, ag márú 14 mhórshiúlóir neamharmtha agus ag gortú 14 eile. Lipéadaíodh na marbh agus na gortaithe gunnadóirí agus buamadóirí ag fiosrúchán breithiúnach páirtíneach Breataineach, agus chuaigh 38 bliain thart sular chuir dara fiosrúchán poiblí iallach ar Rialtas Shasana admháil cad a bhí ar eolas ag gach duine eile go raibh cách a máraíodh agus a gortaíodh neamhchiontach agus go raibh na lámhaigh “éagórach agus dochosanta.”, Photos: (from top to bottom) , British soldiers chase protestors towards Rossville flats (Colman Doyle); a strip of images of the Paratroopers involved on Bloody Sunday taken just after the shootings; a soldier continues the chase after hitting a protestor in the head with the butt of his rifle (Colman Doyle); Fr Daly leads a group of men carrying the dying Jackie Duddy (Fulvio Grimaldi) and below, thirteen coffins in St Mary’s Church, Creggan.