Bloody Sunday: the day that shook Dublin

At 9am on the morning of 21 November 1920, Michael Collins’ IRA gunmen killed 15 suspected British intelligence officers at various sites across Dublin City. In the afternoon Crown forces opened fire on the crowd at a Dublin v Tipperary Gaelic football match in Croke Park killing 14 people, including 3 children and a Tipperary player.


John Borgonovo and Michael Foley discuss the events of a day that changed Ireland forever.


Author of The Bloodied Field, which tells the story of what happened in Croke Park that day, Michael Foley is a journalist and author..


John Borgonovo teaches history at University College Cork and has written extensively on the Civil War period.


Padraig Yeates is a distinguished social and labour historian and the author of City in Revolution which was published in 2014.


Recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle on 26 September 2015.


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