Sunday Bloody Sunday

Two Sundays, fifty years apart, changed Ireland forever. In Dublin, 1920, Michael Collins’s men struck at dawn, assassinating British agents. By afternoon, Croke Park ran red with blood as Crown forces opened fire on a football crowd, killing men, women, and children. Half a century later, in Derry, 1972, British paratroopers shot down unarmed civil rights marchers, reigniting the Troubles and inspiring U2’s haunting anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday.

This episode unravels both tragedies, the myths, the lies, and the human cost behind them. From secret assassinations and reprisals to cover-ups and grief that spanned generations, it is the story of how two days of violence scarred Ireland’s history and still echo through music and memory today.