Roisín’s paper to the Contemporary Irish History Seminar, Trinity College Dublin.
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Roisín discusses the project on ‘Sunday Sequence’, BBC Radio Ulster.
Listen to Roisín Higgins discuss the project with Audrey Carville on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014nnk
Commemorating Bloody Sunday
This post appeared in The Conversation, 28 January 2022. Bloody Sunday 50 years on
Fragments of Conflict
It was Christmas 1973 and a little girl drew a picture of the nativity. When her teacher asked ‘if the spiky shape above the stable was a star’, the girl replied, ‘Oh no, Miss – that’s the helicopter’. The child lived in the Creggan in Derry and her school was beside a well-known flashpoint so, …