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Eyewitness Bloody Sunday
The Truth
Don Mullan

“Eyewitness Bloody Sunday is a definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies of the Northern Ireland troubles … Don Mullan has done an invaluable service to the people [who] have been tireless in pursuit of truth and justice.”
– John Hume MP, Nobel Peace Prize winner

“Don Mullan’s book, Eyewitness Bloody Sunday – The Truth, stands as one of those very few publications which have succeeded in making a real difference to the people it writes about. There can be no doubt that its revelations and new evidence contributed significantly to the British Government’s belated decision to hold a public inquiry.

Bloody Sunday was one of those watershed moments in Anglo-Irish history. Don Mullen has produced an account of that, which is essential reading for anyone who truly wants an understanding of that terrible event and its place in Irish life.”
- Gerry Adam MP

“Don Mullan’s Eyewitness Bloody Sunday breathed new life into a subject which was part of our collective memory. Yes, I marched each year from Creggan to a rally in the Bogside, but until I read his book I did not even begin to understand the profound effect these events had really had on this community…Mullan’s book has been a major milestone, not only for the case of those murdered on Bloody Sunday, but in helping those of us not present to truly understand the horror of that day.
- Trisha Ziff, Editor, Hidden Truths Bloody Sunday 1972

Within days of the killing of thirteen unarmed civilians and the wounding of fourteen others on Bloody Sunday, over 500 eyewitness testimonies were recorded for presentation to the Widgery Tribunal – but only 15 were considered. Officially ignored for more than two decades, Don Mullan published a hundred witness statements in the first edition of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday.

This book had a phenomenal and far-reaching impact, profoundly weakening the official version of the events of 30 January 1972.

According to BBC News: “The book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday… was crucial in bringing about the second inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday.” Similarly, Gerry Adams MP stated that “there can be no doubt that [the book’s] revelations and new evidence contributed significantly to the British Government’s belated decision to hold a public inquiry”.

With the Saville inquiry now into its second year of investigations, Eyewitness Bloody Sunday has become a pivotal source book of first-hand evidence about what really happened on that tragic day.

There is no truth as powerful as witnessed truth, and the accounts tell a dramatic human story of tragedy, brutality and heroism. Forgotten for over 20 years, they were unearthed by Don Mullan and over 100 are published here.