O'Hara was born in Bishop Street , Derry , Northern Ireland . He joined Na Fianna Éireann in 1970 , and in 1971 his brother Sean was interned in Long Kesh . In late 1971 , at the age of 14 , he was shot and wounded by a soldier while manning a barricade . Due to his injuries , he was unable to attend the civil rights march on Bloody Sunday but watched it go by him in the Brandywell , and the events of the day had a lasting effect on him
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Patsy O'Hara