Bloody Sunday. The violent end to a day of peaceful civil rights protest, and an event that would change a country for decades to come. But this wasn’t the Northern Ireland of January 30, 1972.
The sequence of events which reached a climax 60 years ago next week not only made the emergence of the civil rights movement almost entirely inevitable but also brought John Hume into public life.
I fell out with John Hume fairly often ... the Washington Post or the Sunday Times. This is the Derry Journal.” “Aagh,” he shot back, “but this is the paper that gets me elected”.
The Bloody Sunday Trust raised the money through a number ... all of which are still available from the Museum of Free Derry – and from public donations, collections and admission fees to ...