Programme (subject to change)
Thursday 30 January.
11.OO am: Launch of the Bloody Sunday Trust at the Rath Mor
Centre in Creggan. Professor Dermot Walsh of Limerick University
will present his report into significant new evidence discovered
at the Public Records Office in London and which was withheld
from the families of those killed and their legal
representatives. Bishop Edward Daly, patron of the new Trust,
will also speak
7.30 pm. Commemorative mass in St Mary's Church, Creggan.
The main celebrant will be the Bishop of Derry, Seamas Hegarty.
8.30 pm. Mass will be followed by a question and answer
session in St Mary's Youth Centre. Entitled "Creggan and Bloody
Sunday", the panel will consist of Eamonn McCann, author of
War and an Irish Town and Bloody Sunday in Derry: What
Really Happened, Denis Bradley, former priest and film maker,
Councillor Mary Nelis, Don Mullan, author of the new book
Eyewitness Bloody Sunday, Linda Roddy, sister of William
Nash, one
of those killed on Bloody Sunday, Patricia Coyle, Secretary of
the Bloody Sunday Trust and solicitor with Madden &
Finucane, legal representatives for the relatives of those killed
and Robin Percival, member of
the Pat Finucane Centre and Chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust.
Friday 31 January.
12.30 pm. Fourteen oak trees will be planted at the Creggan
reservoir. A fifteenth tree will be planted to honour those who
were wounded and have since died.
8.00 pm Annual Bloody Sunday Commemoration Lecture in the
Guildhall. This year's lecturer is Tim Pat Coogan, author of
books on both Michael Collins and Eamonn de Valera.
Organised by Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign.
Friday, 31 January.
Fundraiser in the Gweedore bar.
Organised by the Bloody Sunday Week End Committee.
Saturday 1 February.
All events at Pilot's Row Community Centre, Rossville Street.
10:30 am Alternative Tour of Derry for visitors.
11:00 to 5 pm: Bloody Sunday footage/documentary screening.
12 noon to 5 pm: Video voice box will be available to allow
people to record their
memories of Bloody Sunday. This will be added to the Bloody
Sunday archive which
is being collected by the Bloody Sunday Trust.
12:00 noon -2:30 pm : Truth and Justice.
In an event led by Eamonn McCann local people will remember
Bloody Sunday, and give
eyewitness accounts of what happened on the day.
LUNCH available at the Centre.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm : Secrets and Lies
25 years on, why Bloody Sunday is still unresolved. Focus on
how Bloody Sunday set
the agenda for 25 years of state killing and how "official"
history still deals with the
event.
Event Chaired by Seamus Deane, Derry born author and
academic and winner of the 1996 Guardian Fiction
Prize.
Saturday evening
8:00 pm Pilots Row Centre. "Who Fears Peace".
Prominent speakers :
Mary Flaherty, TD and member of Fine Gael;
Seamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of SDLP
Rev Roy Magee, Presbyterian Minister who brokered the
loyalist ceasfires.
Mitchel McLaughlin Chairperson of Sinn Fein.
9:00 pm Fundraiser in Dungloe Bar, upstairs. Live bands.
Sunday 2nd February
11 am Short service of commemoration at the Bloody Sunday
memorial led by
relatives of those killed.
Before the start of the march there will be a Bloody Sunday
exhibition, involving both photographs and video footage. This
will be at the Corn Beef Tin, Central Drive, Creggan. Coffee and
sandwiches will be available as will the new badge produced by
the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign.
2.30 pm 25th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday March and rally.
Main speaker will be Martin McGuinness.
Sunday night. Dungloe Bar. Special session for
stragglers.
For more information contact:
Maeve McLaughlin at the Pat Finucane Centre.
Tel: 01504 268846 Fax: 01504 266453