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Article: Paperbacks; Eyewitnesses to the reality of Northern Ireland's `Bloody Sunday' Don Mullan's compilation concerning 1972 massacre exposes British probe as a sham.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 8, 1998
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It isn't often that news events provide an opportunity to examine what set them in motion. However, the Jan. 30 announcement by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that there would be a new investigation into the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry in Northern Ireland in 1972 is one of those exceptions.
Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland (Roberts Rinehart, $15.95) presents more than 100 (of 500-plus) eyewitness accounts of the events now known as Bloody Sunday. The accounts were compiled and introduced by Don Mullan, a witness himself when he was 15 years old. The events so shaped his life that he went on to work with the ...