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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 first Inquiry (Widgery Inquiry):
- Great Britain. Parliament. (1972), Report of the Tribunal appointed to inquire into events on Sunday 30th January 1972. [Widgery Report, HC 220] London: HMSO.
responses to the official (Widgery) report and new evidence:
- British Irish Rights Watch 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
- 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.
- 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.
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998-2004), the second Inquiry:
- Blair, Tony. (1998) Statement by Tony Blair, then British Prime Minister, establishing the new Inquiry, (29 January 1998). London: House of Commons.
- Saville, Mark. (1998) Opening Statement of The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, by Lord Saville, (3 April 1998). Derry: The Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
- The Bloody Sunday Inquiry web site {external_link} launched on 3 April 1998
- Guide to the Hearings of The Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998-2004)
personal accounts of the events:
- Daly, Edward. (2000), Mister, Are You A Priest? Dublin: Four Courts Press.
- Grimaldi, Fulvio. (1972, 1998), Blood in the Street. Derry: Guildhall Press. [First published in March 1972 by Peoples' Democracy adn Lotta Continua. Republished in 1998 by Guildhall Press.]
- McClean, Raymond. (1983), The Road to Bloody Sunday. Swords: Ward River.
other material
- Civil Rights Movement. (1972), Massacre at Derry. Derry: Civil Rights Movement.
- McCann, Eamonn. (1972), What Happened in Derry. London: A Socialist Worker Pamphlet.
- Pringle, Peter and Jacobson, Philip. (2000), 'Don't move, pretend you're Dead', chapter 10 from - Those are real bullets, aren't they? London: Fourth Estate.

Some photographs related to 'Bloody Sunday'

Includes a series of colour photographs taken by William L. Rukeyser on 'Bloody Sunday'

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

Details of source material

Including the most important web sites

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