Key Events - 'Bloody Sunday', Derry 30 January 1972

Selected reading list

Summary of the main events

Chronology of events

Names of the dead and injured

Details of the circumstances in which people were killed

Background events leading up to 'Bloody Sunday'

Further information on the main events:

• the official Report of the second Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Saville Inquiry):
  • Bloody Sunday Inquiry. (2010). The Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, [Saville Report], (HC 29-I - HC 29-X, Volumes 1-10), (released 15 June 2010). London: The Stationery Office.
    [This report now supersedes the report of the first Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Widgery Inquiry) in 1972.]
  • Chapter list of the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry
  • CAIN Guide to the Hearings of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998-2005)


• The second Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Saville Inquiry, 1998-2005):
  • Blair, Tony. (1998). Statement by Tony Blair, then British Prime Minister, establishing the new Inquiry, (29 January 1998). London: House of Commons. ... [16714]
  • Saville, Mark. (1998) Opening Statement of The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, by Lord Saville, (3 April 1998). Derry: The Bloody Sunday Inquiry. ... [6607]
  • The Bloody Sunday Inquiry Web site {external_link}, launched on 3 April 1998, is not working properly. Another version of the site is available from the National Archives


• the official report of the first Inquiry (Widgery Inquiry):
  
  • Great Britain. Parliament. (1972). Report of the Tribunal appointed to inquire into the events on Sunday, 30th January 1972, which led to loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day, [Widgery Report]., (HC 220), (18 April 1972). London: HMSO. ... [2281]
    [This report is now superseded by the report of the second Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Saville Inquiry) in 2010; see above.]
  
  
• responses to the first Inquiry (Widgery Inquiry) report and new evidence:
• British Irish Rights Watch. (1994). Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Summary and Arbitrary Executions: The Murder of 13 Civilians by Soldiers of the British Army on 'Bloody Sunday', 30 January 1972. London: British Irish Rights Watch. ... [2970]
• Irish Government. (1997). The Irish Government's Assessment of the Widgery Report and the New Material Presented to the British Government in June 1997. Dublin: Irish Government. ... [16705]
• Walsh, Dermot P.J. (1997). The Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry: A Resounding Defeat for Truth, Justice and the Rule of Law (a report commissioned by the Bloody Sunday Trust). Derry: The Bloody Sunday Trust. ... [3042]


• personal accounts of the events:
  • Daly, Edward. (2000). Mister, Are You A Priest? Dublin: Four Courts Press. ... [4220]
  • Grimaldi, Fulvio. (1972, 1998). Blood in the Street. Derry: Guildhall Press. [First published in March 1972 by Peoples' Democracy and Lotta Continua. Republished in 1998 by Guildhall Press.] ... [13425]
  • McClean, Raymond. (1983). The Road to Bloody Sunday. Swords: Ward River. ... [1199]


• other material:
  • Civil Rights Movement. (1972). Massacre at Derry. Derry: Civil Rights Movement. ... [3093]
  • McCann, Eamonn. (1972). What Happened in Derry. London: A Socialist Worker Pamphlet. ... [7881]
  • Pringle, Peter., and Jacobson, Philip. (2000). 'Don't move, pretend you're Dead', chapter 10 in, Those are real bullets, aren't they? London: Fourth Estate. ... [3989]

Some photographs related to 'Bloody Sunday'

Some audio clips recorded by William L. Rukeyser on 'Bloody Sunday'

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