Bloody Sunday 100 Years On
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 21 November 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Diarmaid Ferriter joined me on the podcast to talk about the events of Bloody Sunday on 21st November 1920, which marked a decisive turning-point in Irish history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Downsnow's history. 100 years ago today on the 21st of November, |
| 0:07.0 | 1920, blood flowed in the streets of Dublin. During the Anglo-Irish War, the Irish War of |
| 0:13.5 | Independence, there was a crescendo today that became known as Bloody Sunday. First, the IRA |
| 0:19.9 | struck, targeted killing the assassination of British intelligence agents or spies. Then in the |
| 0:25.6 | afternoon, ill-disciplined British troops opened fire on a crowd in and around Kroak Park, |
| 0:30.9 | a huge sporting stadium on the outskirts of the city centre of Dublin. It was a day that would go |
| 0:36.7 | down in infamy. 100 years on, I talked to Dermod Féretta, he's one of Ireland's best-known historians, |
| 0:42.3 | he's professor of history at University College Dublin. As you'll hear, a phenomenal historian |
| 0:47.4 | and communicator. It was a great, great privilege to have him on Having Good Mardin for so many years. |
| 0:51.2 | We talked about Bloody Sunday, what it meant on both sides of the Irish Sea and all over the world, |
| 0:56.2 | and its resonance, 100 years on. If you want to watch documentaries about those |
| 1:03.6 | turbulent years of the First World War and the events that followed, please go to historyhit.tv. |
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| 1:26.7 | you don't like it, don't subscribe, I'm cool with that. In the meantime everybody, enjoy Dermod Féretta. |
| 1:38.4 | Dermod, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. |
| 1:40.4 | Lovely to be here. Tell me about the situation. 100 years ago, coming into the autumn winter of 2020, |
| 1:47.6 | what was the context in Ireland? Well, the Irish War of Independence had started in early 1919, |
| 1:54.0 | but 1919 was a relatively quiet year. The IRA's campaign against Britain was not quite a full scale |
| 2:02.1 | then. The IRA was very poorly resourced and it was struggling to coordinate a nationwide |
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