Events confirmed for Bloody Sunday Centenary
By Shane Brophy
Nenagh will host the first of a number of commemorative events to mark the centenary of the events of Bloody Sunday 1920.
Tipperary County Board's Bloody Sunday Commemoration Committee launched its programme of events at Semple Stadium for the year last Saturday night, beginning on Monday, 9th March at 8.00pm in the Great National Abbey Court Nenagh where historian John Flannery will host a lecture entitled: Bloody Sunday – a bitter legacy or a legacy of bitterness, in association with the Ormond Historical Society.
It will culminate in a national memorial for the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday at Croke Park on Saturday 21st November when a football challenge match will be played between Tipperary and Dublin, the sides who were playing on that fateful day.
That game was abandoned after twelve minutes when British forces attacked Croke Park where fourteen people were killed by crown forces, including Tipperary player Michael Hogan.
The challenge match will begin from the twelfth minute onwards and while it will begin with Tipperary and Dublin players, both teams will then see the introduction of players from other counties also.
“All the events that we are having are leading up to 21 November and at that stage there will be a crescendo as people will really feel part of it as it belongs to everybody, not just Tipperary,” said Seamus McCarthy, chairman of the Tipperary Bloody Sunday Commemoration Committee.
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