Killing And Bloody Sunday Summary

Reading Journal 7: Killing and Bloody Sunday, November 1920.
What is the reading about?
This week’s reading journal was taken from the ‘The Historical Journal, Vol 49, No. 3 (Sep., 2006), pp. 789- 810’. The journal article is called ‘Killing and Bloody Sunday’, by Anne Dolan. This journal is first introduced by an abstract informing the reader on the account in hand. The author first explains what the text is about. In the account the author explains the killing of fourteen men. The author presents us with the first killing of William Johnson. She explains the effect of the rebellion on Frank Teeling, the man who shot William Johnson. She then goes into context about the affairs on Bloody Sunday and how it affected Auxiliary cadet, Henry Spenle.

The first argument made to support this point was the killing of Johnson. Frank Teeling shot Johnson over a bag of tomatoes, states the Criminal Investigation Department. They concluded these actions to the effect of drink. Although, it could be because shell shock. The IRA had their reasons, they were under threat by the British spies and therefore hinder their movement. Larry Nugent stated ‘the life of every IRA man was at stake.’ Even before the attacks the men felt anxious. Andrews points out he felt ‘the prospect of killing a man in cold blood felt alien to the ideas of how a war should be conducted.’ They were affected by the killings in different ways. Charles Dalton stressed the overwhelming feeling to run and not stop. Todd Andrews stated he could not live with himself. There is a counter argument that the killings didn’t effect some of them. Byrne stated that a colt. revolver was the joy of this life. Although it was apparent as Byrne also mentioned that three soldiers became nervous wrecks. Harry Colley mention some of them turned to drink. Major General Russell commented saying that it left [these men] anything but normal. There are other statements which conclude Dolans statement. She heavily back her point. It is evident that the killing had a major impact on some of these young