On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell

On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbellin January 1972, soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, leaving 13 dead and 18 injured. Within hours , they informed the world that they have won an 'IRA gun battle' but in 2010, Lord Saville found the British army fired first, and that most victims were either shot in the back while running away or helping someone's in need, Oran historian Julie Ann Campbell 17

It is the work of a man who set himself a mission to unearth Derry's story from the mists of the past to preserve it for generations stretching forward into the 21st century

the “You Are Now Entering Free Derry” sign and Doire logo on the reverse

she draws on dozens of interviews and rare

Some of them

At the age of 22 he was already chosen as a republican representative for secret talks with the British in 1972

‘rapping for the most part in Irish and unabashedly republican in their politics’

but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when

Why did ‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’

the one constant has been the dignififed and brave response of the family

the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation

He didn't even know what a gun was

It is an inspiring story of how a community united challenged their oppressors