The Bloodied Field: Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 - Softcover

Foley, Michael

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9781847177674: The Bloodied Field: Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

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ISBN 10: 1847177670 ISBN 13: 9781847177674

Publisher: The O'Brien Press, 2015

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On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fianc� to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park.

Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster.

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Bloody Sunday 1920 – 90 seconds of shooting that changed Irish-British history On the morning of 21 November 1920, fourteen men lay dead across Dublin city after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Still, thousands of people were on their way to watch the Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the streets, some of them headed for Croke Park. There was a sense of danger in the air.
Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday and the shooting in Croke Park that changed history forever. In a deeply intimate and detailed account, he tells for the first time the personal stories of those killed, of the police and military personnel, and of the families left shattered in the aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster.
MICHAEL FOLEY Award-winning journalist and author of Kings of September, winner of the 2007 BoyleSports Irish Sportsbook of the Year, and (as ghostwriter) Harte: Presence Is the Only Thing, shortlisted for the 2009 William Hill Irish Sportsbook of the Year.

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‘One of the best GAA books ever written.’ Leinster Express

‘This is a beautiful book and a brilliant piece of journalism.’ Sunday Times

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