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The Bloodied Field
Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920|
9,99 € |
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| Verlag: | The O'brien Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 06.07.2020 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781788492294 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 352 |
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Beschreibungen
On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park.
Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster.
Updated with new information and photographs.
Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster.
Updated with new information and photographs.
<p>Contents</p><p>Names and Acronyms 13</p><p>Cast of Principal Characters 15</p><p>Prologue 21</p><p>The Invisible War 34</p><p>PART I POLITICS AND WAR, 1918–1920</p><p>1 The Boy with the Penny Package 45</p><p>2 The Outlaws 56</p><p>3 The Reluctant General 78</p><p>4 The Heritage of Hate 97</p><p>PART II GAELIC FOOTBALL IN DUBLIN AND TIPPERARY, AND THE RISE OF THE GAA, 1884–1920</p><p>5 A New Force 119</p><p>6 Faith Restored 140</p><p>7 The Brainy Bunch 156</p><p>8 The Challenge 170</p><p>PART III CROKE PARK AND BLOODY SUNDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 1920</p><p>9 Morning – 7am to Midday 187</p><p>10 Afternoon – 11am to 3.25pm 199</p><p>11 The Bloodied Field – 3.25pm to 5.30pm 214</p><p>12 The Aftermath 231</p><p>PART IV THE BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRIES AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH, 1920–1921</p><p>13 The Violence of Truth 247</p><p>14 The Funerals 265</p><p>15 The Inquiries 280</p><p>16 War Stories 299</p><p>17 The Dead 319</p><p>Postscript 323</p><p>Selected Bibliography 327</p><p>Index 337</p>
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