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Bloody Sunday

May 2024

  • Martin Rowson on a litany of very British scandals

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on a litany of very British scandals – cartoon

    A scheme to compensate UK victims of the contaminated blood tragedy and their families by the end of the year has been announced

April 2024

  • a granite memorial with names and Bloody Sunday date inscribed on it

    Bloody Sunday families decry decision not to prosecute 15 veterans for perjury

    Move extinguishes one of the last hopes of legal action over killing of 13 civil rights demonstrators in Derry in 1972

March 2024

  • Man wearing glasses and suit at podium in front of microphone

    US attorney general tells Bloody Sunday service ‘the right to vote is under attack’

    Merrick Garland warns of efforts to disenfranchise Black voters and says court decisions have weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act

May 2023

  • Rt Hon Sir ROBERT CARSWELL Lord Chief Justice of N. Ireland COMPULSORY CREDIT: UPPA/Photoshot Photo UGL 012518/A-08 06.01.1997, Credit:Photoshot / Avalon

    Lord Carswell obituary

    Barrister and judge who served as lord chief justice of Northern Ireland

July 2022

  • Protesters, dubbed the Red Rebels, outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, during an Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest in Westminster, London. Monday October 7, 2019.

    ‘We won’t stay silent any longer’ – 13 protest photographs that changed Britain

    As a new law comes into place that restricts how people can demonstrate across the UK, we look at some of the images and moments that reshaped the nation

February 2022

  • Orla Mullan as Bloody Sunday victim Peggy Deery and Jonny Everett as Para 1 in The White Handkerchief.

    The White Handkerchief review – Bloody Sunday powerfully relived by a local cast

    Drama, music and movement are combined to potent effect in this new play depicting the tragic events of 30 January 1972
  • Crowds with wreaths

    Bloody Sunday: hundreds pay respects in Derry 50 years after atrocity

    Irish taoiseach Micheál Martin and other party leaders lay wreaths at Bloody Sunday memorial as part of series of commemorative events
  • Flags, including that of the Parachute Regiment, flying in Drumahoe, 24 January 2022.

    It’s 50 years since Bloody Sunday, but sectarian tensions are running high

    Susan McKay
    The old divides are closing, but the flags in Derry show that some unionists are in no mood to move on, says Irish writer Susan McKay
  • Bloody Sunday Mass Arrest<br>British troops arrest civilians on Rossville St, Londonderry during a civil rights march. The day went on to become known as Bloody Sunday as British paratroopers shot dead 13 civilians. (Photo by William L. Rukeyser/Getty Images)

    On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell review – first-hand stories of a shameful day

    This oral history, using the testimony of survivors, relatives and witnesses, is meticulous and moving in telling the story of the massacre in Derry 50 years ago
  • A mural in Derry depicting events from Bloody Sunday

    The Guardian view on the Bloody Sunday anniversary: the legacy remains

  • People confront British soldiers minutes before paratroopers opened fire near a barricade on William Street in Derry.

    How Bloody Sunday unfolded – in pictures

  • People take part in a ceremony outside parliament in London on Thursday to commemorate the victims of 1972 Bloody Sunday killings

    Adrian Dunbar to lead events to mark 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday

  • A memorial for victims of Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland.

    Bloody Sunday: what has happened in the 50 years since the killings?

  • Fintan O’Toole

    Despite the violent past and toxic present, Britain and Ireland cannot escape the ties that bind

    Fintan O’Toole
    The fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday reminds us that history and geography mean that now, as then, the fates of the two countries are entwined

November 2021

  • Father Edward Daly holds a white handkerchief as he helps clear a path for the injured on Bloody Sunday.

    White handkerchief and a Derry play tell Bloody Sunday story

    Drama about those who died when soldiers opened fire on protesters will premiere on 50th anniversary

August 2021

  • ‘A Joycean attempt to describe everything’ … pairings in Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, from the chapters The Last Night (top) and Day of Roses (lower).

    Firefights, foxhunts and flower shows: a staggering new view of the Troubles

    Thirty years in the making, photographer Gilles Peress’s 2,000-page ‘totality’ places scenes of everyday life in 70s and 80s Northern Ireland alongside harrowing images of violence and grief

July 2021

  • James Wray and William McKinney

    Troubles trials: why did they collapse, and what happens next?

  • Photographs of James Wray and William McKinney are held during a vigil in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, in March 2019.

    Northern Ireland prosecutors drop Troubles-era cases against ex-soldiers

May 2021

  • Coroner Releases Findings Of Ballymurphy Inquest

    Why is the British army not held accountable for its actions?

    Neil Mitchell
    The government’s apology for the Ballymurphy massacres is 50 years too late - this culture of military cover-up needs to change, says international relations professor Neil Mitchell

September 2020

  • Bloody Sunday shootings<br>(Left to right) Solicitor Ciaran Shiels, Bloody Sunday survivor Mickey McKinney and solicitor Fearghal Sheils react to an announcement from the Public Prosecution Service that no further former soldiers will be prosecuted over the killing of 13 civilians in Londonderry in 1972, at the Bloody Sunday Memorial in the Bogside area of Derry City. PA Photo. Picture date: Tuesday September 29, 2020. See PA story ULSTER Sunday. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

    Bloody Sunday families reject decision to charge only one soldier

    Relatives of some of the 14 people killed when army opened fire in 1972 to challenge ruling by Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service
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