Bloody Sunday 50: Journal photos from 1972 and 1997

Fifty-years ago an Englishman, Mr. Tony Martin, declared at a Press conference in the West End Hall: “I was in Cyprus, and I never saw anything like this atrocity. I was in Cyprus when nineteen soldiers were killed, and the army never set on the people like they did on Sunday here;” Italian journalist, Signor Fulvio Grimaldi, said in a radio interview that tape recordings which he had made on Sunday indicated beyond doubt that there had been no provocation before the British Army opened fire in Derry on Sunday afternoon.

“There hadn’t been one shot fired at them,” he said. “There hadn’t been one petrol bomb thrown at them. There hadn’t been one nail bomb thrown at them. They just jumped out, and with unbelievable murderous fury, shot into the fleeing crowd;” and 51-years-old Derryman, Francis McCloskey, living in Marlow, Slough, Buckinghamshire went to the headquarters of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment in Belfast and handed in the eight medals he won during his five years’ service with the regiment. Here are a selection of photos from 1972 and 1997.

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Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims at a special anniversary Mass in St. Mary’s Church in Creggan on the 25th anniversary of the massacre in January 1997.

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