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Pictured are relatives and representatives from the Bloody Sunday Trust and Museum of Free Derry with Mayor Lilian Seenoi Barr and other local politicians at the launch.

‘One World, One Struggle’ : Bloody Sunday 2025 programme launched

Nadya Tannous, long time organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement, to deliver annual Bloody Sunday Lecture in January 2025.

Irish-Palestinian activist to deliver Bloody Sunday lecture

Relatives, survivors and residents gathered for the rededication of the refurbished memorial in Claudy on the 52nd anniversary.

IN PICTURES: 52nd anniversary of the Claudy bombing in Derry

Mark Eakin, whose sister Kathryn, was just nine when she was killed in the IRA bombings in Claudy on July 31, 1972.

‘It’s a scandal, it’s a disgrace’

People gather for a service in Claudy marking the 52nd anniversary of the car bombings that killed nine people and injured 30 others. Photo: George Sweeney

'This is a commitment to preserving history'

One of the images of 269 victims of state violence that were previously projected onto Free Derry Wall during a protest against the British government’s controversial Legacy Bill. The protest was organised by the Bloody Sunday Trust and the Pat Finucane Centre. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2313GS – 08

Move towards repealing 'toxic' Legacy Act welcomed

Derry's new Peacemakers Museum, located in the Gasyard Centre in the Bogside, will open to the public from Monday 22 July next. Photo: George Sweeney

WATCH: First look inside 'Peacemakers' museum

Peacemakers Museum website and social media launched

SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood.

NI Troubles Legacy Act: Campaign for justice is ‘far from over’ - Derry MP

The funeral cortege as Billy McGreanery was laid to rest in 1971.

‘Our uncle Billy became our second daddy’

Crowds gathered at the commemoration.

IN PICTURES: Richard Quigley remembered 40 years on in Derry

BBI: Bogside and Brandywell Initiative has received IFI funding and works with Peace Barriers in the city including the Fountain/ Bishop Street area. (Photo by Darren Kidd, PressEye)

NW projects peace funding boost

Thomas Friel, 21, was shot in Creggan in May 1973. He died four days later.

New Inquest into death of Derry man Thomas Friel in 1973 opens

Jim Loughrey (left) and John Toland.

Cases against MOD and PSNI settled

Relatives lay wreaths during the Annual Bloody Sunday Remembrance Service held at the monument in Rossville Street on Sunday morning. Photo: George Sweeney.

21 poignant photographs of the 52nd anniversary Bloody Sunday Memorial Service i...

The Bloody Sunday 52nd commemoration march makes it way along Lone Moor Road towards the Brandywell on Sunday afternoon. Photo: George Sweeney

IN PICTURES: The Bloody Sunday March for Justice in Derry
Thousands of people attended the annual Bloody Sunday March for Jutice in Derry on Sunday afternoon to mark the 52nd anniversary.
George Sweeney & Brendan McDaid

The Bloody Sunday 52nd commemoration march makes it way along Lone Moor Road towards the Brandywell on Sunday afternoon. Photo: George Sweeney

'When I’m in Derry I feel like I am home'

Colum Eastwood MP speaking at a recent march and rally, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Photo: George Sweeney

Derry's MP 'cannot in good conscience' go to US for St Patrick's Day

The Bloody Sunday Annual Service on Rossville Street on Sunday morning.

Bloody Sunday families speak of horror over Gaza and hit out at Legacy Bill

Thousands of protesters take part in a march and rally, in Derry on Saturday afternoon, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Many of these taking part carried dolls wrapped in a pillowcases to symbolise the thousands of Palestinian children who have recently lost their lives. Photo: George Sweeney

Trust to host ‘Palestine: What Can Derry Do?’

Hume and McArt with Garret FitzGerald, during the Taoiseach's visit to the Journal offices in 1985. The visit was the first to the North by a serving Irish leader in almost twenty years.

John Hume 'walked on water'

Pat McArt, former Editor in Chief, of the Derry Journal group. (1104JB01)

War, Peace and the Derry Journal: Let's begin at the end

Flowers left at the memorial in Greysteel in Co Derry on the 20th Anniversary of the shooting 10 years ago. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Remembering the victims of the Greysteel massacre 30 years on

Jane Buckley

Author Jane Buckley concludes epic Derry-based thriller series

Daniel Hegarty (15) was shot and killed during Operation Motorman in July 1972.

Daniel Hegarty killing: Decision not to prosecute soldier quashed

William Fleming and Danny Doherty.

Inquest into 1984 deaths to be adjourned until November

Sir Declan Morgan. Photo-Jonathan Porter/Presseye.

Sir Declan Morgan to be Chief Commissioner of new ICRIR
The NI Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has appointed the Derry man Sir Declan Morgan to be Chief Commissioner of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR).
Brendan McDaid

William Fleming (left) and Danny Doherty were shot dead by the SAS in grounds of Gransha Hospital, Derry in December 1984. (Pacemaker)

Inquest into the 1984 deaths of two Derry men opens

Freddie Scappaticci. Photo by Press Eye.

Scappaticci death 'cannot impede work of Operation Kenova'

The delegation meeting with the Mothers of Srebrenica.

‘Life-changing’ visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina

November 30, 1995 Derry: US President Bill Clinton waves at the crowd after a walk in Derry with John Hume and then Mayor John Kerr. (LUKE FRAZZA/AFP via Getty Images)

No mention of Derry in US President Joe Biden’s visit to Ireland

One of the images of 269 victims of state violence that were projected onto Free Derry Wall during Monday evening’s protest against the British government’s controversial Legacy Bill. The protest was organised by the Bloody Sunday Trust and the Pat Finucane Centre. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2313GS – 10

IN PICTURES: Legacy bill opposition rally at Free Derry Corner

Footwear of victims of the troubles arranged to spell ‘NO’ at a protest against the proposed Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, held in the Guildhall in 2022. Photo: George Sweeney. DER222GS – 015

Legacy Bill opposition to be projected onto Free Derry Corner

The memorial to the victims of the 1972 Claudy bombing.

Assurances Claudy bombing Memorial will not be relocated

The Bogside Artist's Bloody Sunday mural.

'An Echo in Doire' - a poem about Derry by Tina Cameron

The Bloody Sunday monument.

Unionist response to Para flags in Derry criticised

Relatives carrying white crosses lead the Bloody Sunday 51 commemoration march along Rathlin Drive on Sunday afternoon. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2306GS – 23

IN PICTURES: Bloody Sunday March in Derry to mark 51st anniversary

Relatives lay wreaths during the Annual Bloody Sunday Remembrance Service held at the monument in Rossville Street on Sunday morning. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2306GS – 17

IN PICTURES: Bloody Sunday 51st anniversary Remembrance Service in Derry

Relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday emerged from the Guildhall holding the Saville report, June 15, 2010. (PressEye)

Derry MP Colum Eastwood to nominate Bloody Sunday families for Nobel Peace Prize

Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald delivered the Annual Bloody Sunday Lecture in the Guildhall on Friday evening. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2305GS – 134

Bloody Sunday was ‘a national trauma’ – Mary Lou McDonald

Former volunteer member of the Derry Corps of the Order of Malta Hugh Deehan, who was in the Bogside on Bloody Sunday, pictured with his daughters Roberta Deehan and Michelle Gallagher at the Order of Malta Exhibition launch in the Museum of Free Derry on Monday evening last. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2305GS – 48

13 pictures from the new Knights of Malta during the Troubles exhibition in Derr...

Dr Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland. DER3919GS – 008

Festering truths about past must be brought to light - Archbishop

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald.

Mary Lou McDonald 'honoured' to deliver 2023 Bloody Sunday Lecture

“I saw two casualties who had collapsed from the effects of CS Gas. I escorted these casualties, together with Jim Norris, a fellow Knight of Malta, to the Rossville Flats car park…” Noel McLoone. Photo Colman Doyle (via Museum of Free Derry)

Knights of Malta focus of new Bloody Sunday anniversary exhibition

Annie's Bar after the deadly attack by Loyalist gunmen.

Annie's Bar 50th anniversary: ‘My father's memory lives on through the stories'

The victims of the Annie's Bar massacre: top l-r: Frank McCarron, Michael McGinley and Barney Kelly; bottom l-r Charles Moore and Charles McCafferty.

'Our mum cried a lot, and we didn’t know how to make it better'

Local people, friends and relatives gather at Strabane Old Road on Tuesday evening for a wreath laying event marking the 50th Anniversary of the Annie’s Bar massacre. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2251GS – 13

OPINION: Annie's Bar atrocity: Dignity and grace of families shines through

The Reverend Dr David Latimer spoke at a Mass celebrated by Fr Michael Caney PP, in St Columba’s Church Chapel Road on Tuesday evening, remembering those murdered in Annie’s Bar on the 20 December 1972. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2251GS – 09

Victims of 'forgotten tragedy' remembered

Relatives gather after mass at St Columba’s Church to take part in a wreath laying event, at Strabane Old Road, on the 50th Anniversary of the Annie’s Bar massacre on Tuesday evening. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2251GS – 11

Annie's Bar: A day in 1972 when festive cheer in Derry was 'brutally silenced'

Relatives gather after mass at St Columba’s Church to take part in a wreath laying event, at Strabane Old Road, on the 50th Anniversary of the Annie’s Bar massacre on Tuesday evening. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2251GS – 17

IN PICTURES: Mass and vigil on 50th anniversary of Annie's Bar atrocity

The funerals of victims of the Annie's Bar massacre in Derry in December 1972.

Annie's Bar massacre in Derry: Families meet PSNI 50 years on

William Fleming (left) and Danny Doherty were shot dead by the SAS in grounds of Gransha Hospital, Derry in December 1984. (Pacemaker)

SAS 1984 killings in Derry: Helmet never located

Rev. David Latimer.

Derry eyes first City of Peace title

Footwear of victims of the Troubles arranged to spell ‘NO’ at a protest against the proposed Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill held at Guildhall Square earlier this year. Photo: George Sweeney. DER222GS – 015

Legacy Bill 'must be scrapped’ after ‘damning report’

Crowds gathered at Ebrington to sing with Phil Coulter.

Derry sings The Town I Loved So Well with Phil Coulter

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