Bloody Sunday: An illustrated guide to a murderous countdown to carnage

The events of this day 100 years ago began with an exercise in coordinated killing and spilled into a football game at Croke Park and the calculated brutality of the Crown forces. Historian Mark Duncan recounts a day of bloodshed

‘We challenge Dublin to a match on the first available date’

THE story of ‘Bloody Sunday’ does not begin on the day itself. It does not start on November 21 when this photograph of the Tipperary footballers was taken at Croke Park. For the GAA, no more than for others caught up in the carnage of that day, the story begins some weeks before.