The White Handkerchief, Derry Guildhall, review: daring commemoration of Bloody Sunday strays into agit-prop

The Guildhall, Derry, was the intended destination of the Northern Irish civil rights march against internment that ended in massacre on January 30 1972, an event that…

Sir John Major admitted that he thought the IRA could not be defeated militarily

By that stage, as well as intensified efforts with the Dublin government, a backchannel was already in operation between the UK Government and Sinn Fein. Secret negotiations…