How many died on bloody sunday

He was shot in the back near what is now Hill In the newly-built stand in Croke Park was named after him. Ryan was from Glenbrien , Co Wexford , and was one of the IRA volunteers selected to carry out executions on Bloody Sunday, but the person he was detailed to kill on the North Circular Road was not there. He was sitting in a tree at the corner of the modern-day Hogan and Davin stands watching the match. When the first army trucks reached the canal bridge overlooking Croke Park, men leapt out and made straight for the ground.

Some took positions along the bridge and began firing. Robinson was shot in the shoulder and chest. He died two days later of his wounds in Drumcondra Hospital. He was the youngest to die on Bloody Sunday.

He was the son of a British soldier, also called Jerome. He survived, and fled to England with his family. Despite repeated efforts no contemporary relative of Jerome Jr could be found to attend the unveiling. He is, however, the only one of the three children killed that day for whom a photograph still exists.

He never would have imagined dying in such ignominious circumstances from a thigh wound after he became impaled on a spike while trying to flee the shooting at Croke Park. His body lay in a morgue unclaimed for five days. He was shot helping other people down over the back wall. As he was shot he fell on top of another man who was trying to flee the shooting.

He was survived by his widow Julia and two children. He now has a grave marker as a result of the Bloody Sunday Graves Project. He was one of three schoolboys killed on Bloody Sunday, and among eight victims who had no marked grave until the GAA erected a headstone in James Teehan 26 : Teehan was originally from Tipperary but lived and worked with his brother John in his public house on Green Street in Smithfield.

He said goodbye to his brother after the pair shut the pub for the afternoon. Teehan was crushed to death as he tried to escape the crowds and was pronounced dead on admission to Jervis Street Hospital. He is buried in Co Tipperary. James Burke 44 : Burke was another crushed to death during the stampede to escape the shooting at Croke Park.

He worked as a driver with the Terenure Laundry and lived in Windy Arbour with his wife Annie and their five children. Jane Boyle 26 : Boyle was from 18 Lennox Street and worked for a pork butcher. She was the only woman to die on Bloody Sunday. When the firing started, they fled, but Jane was shot in the back and died on the spot. She was buried later that week in her wedding gown. Her grave went unmarked until The headstone was unveiled by her great-nephew Dr Eamonn Boyle and Professor Tony Boyle , both of whom had travelled from the United States to be there.

He was shot twice in the back while trying to escape over the wall at the Canal End of the ground. McKee was the officer commanding the Dublin Brigade during the War of Independence, and was involved in the planning of the Bloody Sunday shootings. He was picked up along with Peadar Clancy at 1. McKee and Clancy were taken to Dublin Castle for interrogation. The British authorities claimed they were shot trying to escape, but there was evidence they had been tortured before being shot.

Drama about those who died when soldiers opened fire on protesters will premiere on 50th anniversary. On Wednesday, the handkerchief was back in the hands of Kay Duddy, whose brother Jackie was one of 13 unarmed people shot dead by British troops in a civil rights protest in the Northern Ireland city. A 14th man later died of his injuries. The White Handkerchief, telling the stories of those who died, will also be streamed to a global audience.

They never reached the Winter Palace, where Nicholas was in any case not in residence. Not thinking the situation was seriously threatening, he had gone off to the country. His ministers meanwhile had decided to block the march short of the Winter Palace. Thousands of armed troops were stationed at key points, but there was not expected to be any need for force. After prolonged skirmishes between groups of youths and the Army, soldiers from the Parachute Regiment moved in to make arrests.

Just before GMT, stones were thrown and soldiers responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon. Two men were shot and wounded. At GMT, paratroopers moved to arrest as many marchers as possible. According to Army evidence, 21 soldiers fired their weapons, discharging live rounds between them.

The shootings led to widespread anger in Derry and further afield. The British Embassy in Dublin was burned to the ground by an angry crowd. The Widgery Tribunal largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame, although he described the soldiers' shooting as "bordering on the reckless".

It was derided as a whitewash by the victims' families, who spent years campaigning for a fresh public inquiry. The inquiry found that none of the casualties were posing a threat or doing anything that would justify their shooting.

It said no warning was given to any civilians before the soldiers opened fire and that none of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by petrol bombers or stone throwers. Saville found there was "some firing by republican paramilitaries" but that on balance the Army fired first.