Eyre Square Vigil To Mark 50th Anniversary Of Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry
The 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry on 30th January, 1972 will be marked with a vigil in Eyre Square in Galway City. The hour-long commemorative event, which is being organised by Éirígí Gaillimh, will start at 4pm on Saturday, 29th January, 2022.
Speaking ahead of the vigil, Éirígí’s Galway spokesperson, Ian Ó Dálaigh said, “The Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry was one of the defining events of modern Irish history. It showed the world how far the British state was willing to go to suppress both the civil rights movement and the community from where it came.
Bloody Sunday was an act of terrorism by the British state. It was preceded and followed by countless other acts of terrorism by Britain’s official forces and British-controlled death squads. All of these acts were part of a decades-long campaign of state terrorism that was designed to quite literally strike terror into nationalist and republican communities in the Six Counties.
In 2010 the British state finally admitted that it had killed fourteen innocent men and boys in Derry on Bloody Sunday. But it has never admitted responsibility for many hundreds of murders that were carried out by Britain’s official and unofficial forces in Ireland during the most recent phase of conflict.
The current proposal by Boris Johnson government to introduce a general amnesty for all members of the RUC and British Army is a blatant attempt to cover up Britain’s dirty war in Ireland — to deny truth and justice to the thousands of relatives who lost loved ones as a result of that dirty war.
We are organising the vigil on 29th January in Eyre Square to give people from Galway and the surrounding areas an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the people of Derry as they mark the 50th anniversary of a murderous assault on their community. And to stand with all of the victims of British state terror as they continue to fight for truth and justice.”