Bloody Sunday Research Paper

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Bloody Sunday occurred on the 21st of November 1920. It was an act of terror and day of violence and bloodshed in Dublin during the War of Independence. On the morning of this day fourteen men were killed in a planned operation to kill British agents in Dublin, directed by Michael Collins. In retaliation members of the Auxiliary Division and Royal Irish Constabulary shot and killed fourteen people and injured dozens more after opening fire on the crowd of five thousand spectators at the Dublin versus Tipperary match in Croke Park. It became a turning point in the war.
Michael Collins was responsible for the event. He had a group of assassins called The Squad and one group Collin’s Squad targeted was the Cairo Group. They were a British intelligence …show more content…

The operation began at 9.00am and it was planned so that every target would be killed at 9.00 am.The first British soldiers to die were Major Dowling and Captain Price, two intelligence agents in 28 Pembroke Street. A man named Montgomery was shot, probably as he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but died in December 1920 from his wounds. The next place was 117 Morehampton road, where Lieutenant MacLean who was on special duties and undoubtedly an intelligence agent and Smith, a civilian landlord and probably not an intelligence agent, possibly an informer were shot. At 92 Lower Baggot Street, a man called Newberry was shot. Two key members, Lieutenant Ames and Captain Bennett were shot in 38 Upper Mount Street. A sergeant called Fitzgerald was probably shot only for being a sergeant. Noone has ever claimed to have been involved in his murder. At 22 Lower Mount street, Angliss, an intelligence officer was shot and killed. In 119 Baggot Street Captain Baggallay, a barrister, who was employed as a prosecutor under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations, and has a member of courts that sentenced IRA volunteers to death was shot and killed. In the Gresham hotel, Captain McCormick, who was buying horses for the Alexandria Turf Club was killed, as well as Lieutenant Wilde. Garniss and Morris were two auxiliaries shot as collateral damage and this …show more content…

Panic ensued, and people began frantically trying to escape, pushing and trampling each other in effort to escape which ended up in two people getting trampled to death. Two hundred and twenty eight rounds of ammunition were fired into the crowd. Freeman’s Journal said that “the spectators were startled by a volley of shots fired from inside the turnstile entrances. Armed and uniformed men were seen entering the field, and immediately after the firing broke out scenes of the wildest confusion took place. The spectators made a rush for the far side of Croke Park and shots were fired over their heads and into the crowd” Police fired from the inside of the park and the outside. An RIC officer then came onto the pitch and announced a search but it was some hours until this happened. Fourteen people were killed, some were children. A player, the Tipperary captain, Michael Hogan, was shot as he tried to duck from the bullets. About sixty people were

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