Tá an Fhírinne tugtha abhaile faoi dheireadh thiar The Truth Has Been Brought Home At Last

The 39th anniversary of takes place in an unprecedented atmosphere The complete turnaround of the Bloody of celebration marking the successful Sunday story, from darkness into light, will culmination of a long and arduous campaign serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration for for truth and justice. Against all the odds, many other families at home and throughout ordinary people have wrested an outstanding the world who are currently struggling for truth moral and legal victory over a state that and justice. The parallels between Bloody murdered peaceful protestors and then told Sunday and the Ballymurphy Massacre are the world lies about them. manifest. The people of Gaza, among the most beleaguered and demonised in the No more will the lies of the British world, were the first to send congratulations establishment, or the whitewash of Widgery, to the people of on 15th June. Just as be repeated to excuse the actions of the the jubilant release of the Guildford 4 and on the streets of Derry on the Birmingham 6 in 1989 and 1991 gave the 30th January 1972. What we have inspiration to the Bloody Sunday Justice always known has been acknowledged and Campaign, oppressed people everywhere recognised: Bloody Sunday was unjustified will take heart from the ground-breaking and unjustifiable. culmination of that campaign less than seven months ago. From the lips of the British Prime Minister, the truth has been acknowledged. All those Derry’s stubborn refusal to accept the state’s murdered and wounded on Bloody Sunday lies gave rise to the most remarkable justice were innocent. We have always known that. campaign in modern Irish history, a campaign Now the world does as well. All the victims of that reached a climax on the 15th June 2010, Bloody Sunday have been exonerated. Their amid joyous and emotional scenes in Derry’s relatives, friends and supporters across the Guildhall Square. Derided and sneered at for world have been vindicated. years; told by defeatists to give up any hope of reaching success; the dark and difficult For the first time in British legal history an days of campaigning were at last vindicated, official inquiry, Widgery, has been consigned when the Bloody Sunday families and to the legal dustbin. The Saville Report wounded announced to a waiting world: however is far from perfect. It carries a number of serious flaws and has been accurately described as heavy on innocence and light on guilt. Its treatment of Gerald Donaghey is simply incomprehensible. The “The great lie Report stops short of placing blame for the atrocity at the middle and higher echelons of has been laid the British army and the British establishment. But its core message is inescapable and bare. unavoidable: innocence has been proven and accepted. The truth has been acknowledged. The Truth has The families and their supporters stood vindicated on the steps of the Guildhall been brought on June 15th 2010. Finally, the lies and whitewash were exposed and the truth shone home at last.” free. In the words of one campaigner, “We have moved a mountain!” Thursday 20 January / An Déardaoin BSJC and brother of Jackie Duddy, Conal Saville: A Leagáid agus Impleachtaí 8.00: “Assessing Saville” - Seven months 20 Eanáir McFeely, founding member of the BST. idirnáisiúnta: Díospóireacht Phainéil i after the publication of the Saville Report gCultúrlann Uí Chanáin agus Póilín Ní a panel discussion seeking to assess the Hosted by Tony Doherty, founding member of Launch of annual Black Ribbon campaign. Chiaráin, tuairisceoir Raidió na Gaeltachta strengths, flaws and impact of the report the Bloody Sunday Initiative, BSJC, Bloody ina cathaoirleach ar an imeacht. Déanfar an legally, politically and culturally. Panel to Ionad / Venue: Museum of , Sunday Weekend Committee and BST and díospóireacht as Gaeilge. include: 12.30pm. journalist & commentator Paul McFadden. Ionad / Venue: Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, • Eamonn McCann – Chair of Bloody Ionad / Venue: Guildhall, 7.30pm. Admission Mórshráid Shéamais, 2.00 – 4.00pm. Sunday Trust Thursday 27 January / An Déardaoin by donation. Bar facilities available. 27 Eanáir • Christine Bell – legal academic A dramatic • Jane Winter – British Irish Rights Watch Bloody Sunday Memorial Shield: Quiz. Weapons of Choice: Saturday 29 January / An Satharn 29 presentation by The Pat Finucane Centre. Teams of 5, entry fee £10 per team. All Eanáir • Niall Ó Dochartaigh – historian welcome. A Sterling sub-machine gun “stolen” from The road from Bloody Sunday to a UDR base was used to kill 12 people • Eamonn Mallie – media analyst & Ionad / Venue: Crescent Bar, 10.00pm. Ballymurphy - Searching for the Truth: between 1974 and 1980. The Pat Finucane journalist Tony Doherty, Bloody Sunday Relative, Centre presents a dramatic, multi-media • Chair – Paul O’Connor – Pat Finucane Ballymurphy Speaker, Speaker from account giving hard evidence of how such Centre Friday 28 January / An Aoine 28 Relatives for Justice. Organised by Ogra high velocity weapons were allegedly “stolen” Eanáir Shinn Féin. or otherwise mysteriously “disappeared” Ionad / Venue: Pilots Row, Rossville from various British Army, UDR and RUC Street, 8.00pm “Bringing the Truth to Light”: the untold Ionad / Venue: Gasyard Centre, Lecky Road, bases throughout the conflict and used to kill story of the decades long campaign for truth 11.30 am – 1.00pm. dozens of nationalists and republicans. and justice. A night of discussion, reflection, Sunday 30 January / An Domhnach 30 music and poetry looking at the years of Those who died included the Miami Eanáir campaigning that culminated in vindication for Uachtarán Shinn Féin, Gerry Adams Showband; teenage boys; building workers the Bloody Sunday victims. address to the Ógra Shinn Féin National from Donegal and many other victims of state Wreath Laying Ceremony and Prayer Conference. Members of the public welcome. collusion in the so-called “Murder Triangle” of Service mid-Ulster in the 1970’s. Ionad / Venue: Gasyard Centre, Lecky Road, Ionad / Venue: Bloody Sunday Monument, Guest speakers to include: 2.00pm. Using hitherto “Top Secret” documents, Rossville Street, 11.00am. Mitchel McLaughlin MLA, Sinn Féin, Paul the PFC shows the British government’s

O’Connor, founding member of the Bloody response was cover up and lies while The crisis, cutbacks and communities judges made “allowances” for the proven Sunday Initiative, Patrica Coyle, human rights Bloody Sunday Commemorative March under attack - Making the case for a involvement of RUC officers in murder. lawyer and Bloody Sunday campaigner, and Rally. Chair: John Kelly, Speakers new politics in : Speakers Pól O’ Jane Winter, human rights campaigner and Gerry Adams Sinn Féin, Mark Durkan SDLP, Callaghan MLA, SDLP, Pearse Doherty TD, Ionad / Venue: Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Great founding member of the Bloody Sunday Trust Ballymurphy Family representative, Gerry Sinn Féin, Roy Garland, Michael Gallagher, James St, 4.30 – 5.30pm. (BST), Eamonn McCann, Bloody Sunday Duddy, Bloody Sunday relative. Renowned economist and other speakers. Organised by campaigner & Chair of BST, Don Mullan, singer Frances Black will conclude Ógra Shinn Féin. Bloody Sunday campaigner, Geraldine Bloody Sunday Memorial Mass: proceedings on the platform. Doherty, founding member of the Bloody Ionad / Venue: Gasyard Centre, Lecky Road, Sunday Justice Campaign (BSJC) & niece 2.00pm. All welcome. of Gerald Donaghey, John Kelly, founding Ionad / Venue: St Mary’s, Creggan, 6.30pm. Tionóil / Assemble: Creggan Shops, member of the BSJC and brother of Michael 2.30pm. Kelly, Gerry Duddy, founding member of the