title: Bloody Sunday in Derry: What Really Happened
author:  Eamonn McCann 
description: Book by McCann, Eamonn, Shiels, Maureen, Hannigan, Bridie
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  Tobermory  
    
  
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  # Tobermory
  
  
  ### Saki
  
  
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  It was a chill, rain-washed afternoon of a late August day, that indefinite
  season when partridges are still in security or cold storage, and there is
  nothing to hunt—unless one is bounded on the north by the Bristol Channel, in
  which case one may lawfully gallop after fat red stags. Lady Blemley's house-
  party was not bounded on the north by the Bristol Channel, hence there was a
  full gathering of her guests round the tea-table on this particular afternoon.
  And, in spite of the blankness of the season and the triteness of the
  occasion, there was no trace in the company of that fatigued restlessness
  which means a dread of the pianola and a subdued hankering for auction bridge.
  The undisguised open-mouthed attention of the entire party was fixed on the
  homely 