Remembering Bloody Sunday, 100 years on
An RTE documentary on Monday night will recall the tragic massacre in Croke Park a century ago
Michael Hogan who was shot on Bloody Sunday in Croke Park. 1920 /Photo John D Kelly
John Dolan
ON the morning of November 21, 1920, in a co-ordinated attack on the British intelligence services, 14 alleged agents and spies, living in lodgings, hotels and boarding houses across Dublin city, were murdered by Michael Collins’ notorious IRA ‘squad’.
That afternoon, a combined police and military force, with orders to carry out a search operation, descended on Croke Park, where a Gaelic football game between Tipperary and Dublin was taking place.