Podcast Corner: Brilliant retelling of Bloody Sunday massacre at Croke Park 

As the centenary approaches of the killings by the British Army in 1920, Michael Foley's eight-part series provides gripping listening 

Michael Hogan was one of the victims of Bloody Sunday. Picture John D Kelly

Ahead of the centenary of Bloody Sunday on November 21, Michael Foley has created an eight-part series, a TwoCubes production for the GAA, based on his book of the same name, The Bloodied Field. It chronicles the horrific events at Croke Park in 1920, but offers such an empathetic view of the victims and the players themselves, and the driving forces beside the British, that the story feels so much more personal and awful than that presented in school history books.

Indeed Foley says on the first episode: "In time, the massacre became a footnote, maybe a couple of lines in a history book offering a tragic and futile twist to a horrendous story that captured the horror and dark violence of the Irish War of Independence."