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Episode Notes
New writing (a special programme on the theme of Bloody Sunday 1920, first broadcast in 2020, with the support of the GAA Museum at Croke Park):
The Revolution of Wheels and the Wheels of Revolution, by Colin Regan
The Sunday of Blood, November 1920, by the late Chris Shouldice
Reflections on the Bloodied Field, by Michael Foley
My Father, Tommy Ryan, by Anthony Ryan
Voices from Bloody Sunday Morning, by Anne Dolan
Grief and History, by Paul Rouse
Letters for Mick, by Louise Hogan
Music:
Broken Bicycles, by Tom Waits
The Battle of Aughrim, played by Mary McNamara on concertina
The Wounded Hussar, played by Anna Ludlow on fiddle
Sliabh Gallon Braes, played by Liam O'Flynn on tin whistle
Benjamin Britten’s Cello Suite no. 3 opus 87, Street Song, played by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Billy’s Death, from Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland also performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Antal Doráti
The Parting Glass, sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem live at Carnegie Hall
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