Those Are Real Bullets, Aren?t They?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972

Pringle, Peter, Jacobson, Philip

ISBN 10: 1841152900 / ISBN 13: 9781841152905

Published by Fourth Estate, 2000

About this Item

2000. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo.Standard paperback edition . Northern Ireland, Ulster. First edition. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Those Are Real Bullets, Aren?t They?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841152900
• ISBN 13: 9781841152905
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In 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.

About the Author

Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson were the orginal Sunday Times Insight investigators into the events of Bloody Sunday. Peter Pringle is now a correspondent for the Independent based in New York and is the author of several books.