In partnership with The Royal Irish Academy and The Irish Times, Raghnall O’Floinn compiled a list of the 100 objects that define Irish History. One of Bloody Sunday’s most iconic symbols has been selected as part of the list, Bishop Edward Daly’s handkerchief. 

The families of civilians killed and injured by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday have slammed the offer of a $77,000 (€58,000) compensation package  from the British government.

Police in Ulster are to launch a murder enquiry into the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry 40 years ago.

If the actions of the British Army on Bloody Sunday are to be investigated by the North's police force, then Martin McGuinness' role on the day must be investigated too the North's First Minister Peter Robinson said on Thursday.

A murder investigation into the Bloody Sunday atrocity in Derry could take up to four years, according to the police in charge of the new enquiry.

Forty years after the day that shook the North, police are preparing to open a murder inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry.

A ticket for a GAA football game which ended in tragedy in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday in 1920 sold for just over $7,000 at an auction recently.

Several events were held in Derry yesterday to mark the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, in which 14 civil rights marchers were killed by British paratroopers.

Two sisters of a Bloody Sunday victim have rejected offers of financial compensation from the British government this week.

The British government is to compensate the families of those killed when troops opened fire on the streets of Derry on Bloody Sunday.

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By: CATHY HAYES

The families of the 11 people shot dead plan to present the British secretary of state and Stormont justice minister with a new dossier of evidence on the killings. These killing were carried out by the same group of paratroopers, 1 Para, found guilty of the massacre on Bloody Sunday.

There was some element of, “Oh, Christ, I almost wish I hadn’t read this,” Nesbitt recalls, “because having read [the script for Bloody Sunday] I couldn’t walk away from it.”

A bell will toll ten times this Saturday at a major title elimination fight in memory of one of the victims of Bloody Sunday one of Northern Ireland’s bitterest days: Bloody Sunday.

The British record producer who first heard "Bloody Sunday" the U2 hit song told the band to drop the word 'Bloody' as it would not work on radio.

Bono has praised the apology by British Prime Minister David Cameron as a huge breakthrough for peace in Northern Ireland.