Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
The History Hour
00:00
I'm Sorry, What You've Just Said Isn't Good Fothere
Grieving and angry, tony dohety was growing up convinced that his only option for justice was to join the armed struggle against british rule. So on a january evening in 19 80, he presented himself to the local recruiters of the para military,. irish republican army, the i r a. In the end, tony did join the a r a, but within a year, he'd been arrested and jailed for planting a bomb. By the early 19 nineties, though, tony was becoming disillusioned with the arm struggle, and instead turned his energies to the campaign for a second inquiry into bloody sundy. The soldier who killed my father sat no
Transcript
Play full episode
