Bloody Sunday (1887)
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Bloody Sunday was an event which took place in London, England on 13 November 1887, when a crowd of marchers protesting about unemployment and the Irish Coercion Acts, as well as demanding the release
Engraving from The Graphic (published 19 November 1887) depicting a policeman being clubbed by a demonstrator as he wrests a banner from "a Socialist woman leader, one Mrs. Taylor", while other people are covering their heads to protect themselves from raised police batons.
One of the bludgeons used by the rioters
The Life Guards Holding Trafalgar Square
William O'Brien was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of
Birthplace plaque, Thomas Davis Street, Mallow, County Cork
Land War manifesto
William O'Brien, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien and their staff at Mallow Cottage, Clooneen, Westport, County Mayo