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3 unusual facts about Bloody Sunday


Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a play by English journalist Richard Norton-Taylor

Cape Breton coal strike of 1981

During a steelworkers' strike in the summer of 1923, mounted provincial police attacked a crowd of women and children on July 1, 1923 in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

Philip Battley

He appeared for two seasons with the Shakespeare's Globe theatre company in The Comedy of Errors, and was a member of the cast of Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry at the Tricycle Theatre, London, which won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.


Eva Birthistle

In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday, written by Jimmy McGovern.

Green Brigade

The Green Brigade cited civilian deaths caused by the Armed Forces in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Bloody Sunday, highlighting the fact that the report "confirmed that 14 unarmed civilians were murdered in Derry/Londonderry in 1972 by the Paratroop Regiment".

Joanne Bland

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members organized local teenagers to participate in the movement, including marching on Bloody Sunday and Turn Around Tuesday, where Bland witnessed fellow activists being shot and beaten by the police National Guard.

Sheyann Webb

As an eight-year-old, Sheyann Webb-Christburg took part in the first attempted Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday.

The Freedom of the City

Following a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march on 30 January 1972 in the events now known as Bloody Sunday, in which Friel participated, the British 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on the protesters which resulted in thirteen deaths.


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Amelia Boynton Robinson

She contended that the 1999 TV movie Selma, Lord, Selma, a docudrama based on a book written by two young participants in Bloody Sunday, falsely depicted her as a stereotypical "black Mammy" whose key role was to "make religious utterances and to participate in singing spirituals and protest songs."