Bloody Sunday

Beware Of The Thing That Is Coming

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Here is a gallery of (post-Agreement) republican graffiti in the Brandywell, including “$inn £einn”, “Remember the 14” victims of Bloody Sunday, and a quote from Patrick Pearse: “Beware of the thing that is coming”, from the poem ‘The Rebel’, which ends “And I say to my people’s masters: Beware,/Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,/Who shall take what ye would not give.”

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Remember The 14 Men

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After the Saville report (gov.uk) was published in 2010, the PSNI took up its own investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday (January 30th, 1972), which is still on-going (see Bloody Sunday: Appeal For Witnesses). The Derry graffiti shown here calls for justice for the 14 people who died as a result of 1 Para’s attack. The DUP’s Gregory Campbell claims that the prosecution of British Army soldiers would be “disastrous” (BelTel). Victims’ rights groups have described calls for an end to all enquiries as “a betrayal” (BBC).

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The Bloody Sunday Window

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In addition to the 13 people killed on Bloody Sunday, plus John Johnston who died later, the window commemorates “the innocent people killed during the Troubles in the Derry area.”

The artist’s signature is in the bottom left: “Peter T.G. Rooney”.

Guildhall, Shipquay Place/Guildhall Square, Derry

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Vindicated/Ceartaıthe

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An Feachtas Um Cheartas Dhomhnach Na Fola/The Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign was founded in 1992 to press for a repudiation of the original (Widgery) Bloody Sunday inquiry and the reopening of the case (Museum Of Free Derry). That second (a.k.a. Saville) inquiry published its findings in June 2010, concluding that those killed and injured were innocent protesters, which led then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron to say that the deaths were “unjustified and unjustifiable” (Museum Of Free Derry).

A march in search of justice for the Bloody Sunday victims has been held annually since 1973, taking the same route as in 1972 from from Creggan shops to Free Derry Corner; the annual march has continued.

The rear of Free Derry corner has its own Visual History page.

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