Ninety nine years ago...

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Was a Sunday. A Bloody Sunday.

Fourteen people watching a football match in Croke Park were murdered by "police" officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary who fired indiscriminately into the crowd. The youngest person to die was ten years old.
More than sixty others were injured.

The murderous spree, which that evening saw three prisoners beaten to death, was in retaliation for the killing by agents of Michael Collins of fourteen members of the "Cairo Gang", a British intelligence unit.

Today three of the previously unmarked grave received headstones.

 

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Was a Sunday. A Bloody Sunday.

Fourteen people watching a football match in Croke Park were murdered by "police" officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary who fired indiscriminately into the crowd. The youngest person to die was ten years old.
More than sixty others were injured.

The murderous spree, which that evening saw three prisoners beaten to death, was in retaliation for the killing by agents of Michael Collins of fourteen members of the "Cairo Gang", a British intelligence unit.

Today three of the previously unmarked grave received headstones.

The movie Michael COllins, with Liam Neeson as Collins, shows "Black Sunday" quite well.

Ah ,yes, the "BLack and Tans" were a lovely group. That name is still very much hated in the Republic today.
Also a number of great songs about them...


"And the Black and Tans, Like Lighting Ran
From the rifles of the I.R.A."

 

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The film is rather inaccurate.
Also the "police" who fired on the crowd were regular RIC not members of the Auxiliary Division.