John Widgery, Baron Widgery Essays

  • Historical Interpretations of Bloody Sunday

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    about what actually happened on the 30th of January 1972. The arguments are all down to who shot first, the British Army or the IRA. The result of the shooting was that thirteen innocent people were killed. An inquiry was carried out by Lord Widgery, he criticised the shooting by the troops but the report accepted that the army was fired upon. This report did not please everyone and people thought that it was a cover up of what really happened. Twenty six years later in 1998 a new inquiry