Welcome to the documentary on one. And to the 19th and final new episode of our 2020 season. One hundred years after the killing of 14 people in Dublin, Vincent Morphy embarks on a 100 mile cycle from Tipperary to honor his granduncle ghosts and all those caught up in the events of Bloody Sunday, 1920. Narrated by Mehul Amira Hurtig, this is 100 years, 100 miles. And so far, you know, I'm really enjoying the best. With trucks don't give you much quarter.

Jesus. It's July 2020, and I'm on a bike two inches from a truck on the road to Dublin, which is the section of the last section. My name is Vincent Murphy, but I'm known as Jaspar, and I'm Mihajlo with a hefty just Jaspers on the road because of a photograph of a bicycle and a piece of both Irish and Geia history. His grand uncle Gus got caught up in I Live in Fettered into Prarie and on what was once McCarthys Hotel No McCarthys Bar.

It's still a tradition, 19th century pub and restaurant and also the local undertaker.

Like so many of us, Jasper is fascinated by his family's history.

There's a photo of my grandma Gewgaws, my grandfather's brother, on the wall of the bar. It's hung there for the past 100 years. And it's a photo, of course, alongside his teammates.

The team that goes as part of that photo is the Tipperary football team that played in Croke Park on the 21st of November 1920, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday, because ten minutes after the match began, as the Dublin and Tipperary players fought for possession and the crowd cheered on, British forces began shooting at the players and supporters, killing 14 people and injuring many more. Like many people I knew of Bloody Sunday, but not in any great detail.

I knew my grandmother who goes have been involved, but I didn't know too much more. It was only when a neighbour dropped in a photo from the early 1980s, of course, on, of all things, a racing bike that I began to really think about girls and about Bloody Sunday. There is that's the. You do hear that picture was taken. Looks like a kind of garden. I'm with my neighbor, Joel Kenny, who came across that photo, of course, on a bike.

So Gus is wearing what what would have been common cycling gear at the time, which was a Nyssa jersey. He's got a knitted hat. He's got no helmet. The bicycle is a Hercules. You see, he's got his two feet on the pedals as though he's actually cycling like with the cameras at the time, have been able to take a picture. He's of his literally put his feet up and pose.

Yeah. He wasn't turned off. Their sponsors would have been very slow.

So, I mean, even if any kind of move would have shown over your shoulder in the picture, that photograph is the photograph that inspired me seeing the photograph, of course, on his bike sparked an idea for Jasper. What if he could honor the memory of his grand uncle Gus and all those involved in Bloody Sunday by citing the 100 miles and further to Croke Park 100 years after the events of November 1920. Now, all he needed was a bike like this one in the photograph.

I'm standing on the road here outside the cafe near a palace in Canton, which he founded almost by accident. One day in 2018. We came here with the idea of being treated for our daughter. When we were here, we realized that a lot of vintage bikes and they restored vintage bikes have been nice to see you could see you.

As luck would have it, Marty Mannarino had exactly what Jasper to.

Do you remember the day we came over and I showed you that picture or do very well? Yeah. So he didn't bring a bike. He brought a photograph. Yeah. Well, I remember the first question you asked me was, are you going to hang it on the wall? And I said, well, I'm going to say goodbye to your jaw dropped.

But yours was that little bit different because you did come in for a different reason. And then we went on to the next stage of me having something pretty much from the same era of the same style that I just had in storage. And that bike was a really unusual, strange old wreck. So, you know, we have to look at proper engineering solutions for this thing to travel across the country. After eight months of work, the bike is fully restored and ready for the Honda mile journey from Tipperary to Dublin.

So I'm here with the wife that I got restored, and it's similar to the one that was in the picture with us, which would have been the turn of the century early. Nineteen hundreds of like and they put a Brooks sideliners similar to what would have been on it at the time. The handlebars are genuine, the whole frame is genuine. They had to do stuff with wheels that were wonderful on the apart. What are the other modifications we put on us, which wouldn't have been on Gus's bike is a brake.

So the brake on the front wheel.

The very important thing that I have to take into consideration is there's only one gear in this bike and the rest is powered by the Asir. So I have to try and get the flattest route I can into w we designed a little longer for the front of it as well, which is it's a G.

AMCC cost MacCarthy with a football on the challenge of cycling to Dublin in honor of course, and all involved in Bloody Sunday gives me the opportunity to find out more about my grandmother's life, the father and of the son.

At a ceremony in Federated 20-20 honoring the Tipperary players from 1920, I caught up with my Aunt Mary because everybody went about her Bloody Sunday.

No, no, no, no. I suppose to something that you might talk about then, you know, we never spoke to me about it here, OK?

But I heard the stories then relations right afterwards.

It's understandable that there was reluctance to talk about the civil war and war of independence, but there were some family stories which we all knew, and they show how close to history class actually was. Now, this was a good while before Bloody Sunday, though, there was a young teacher in Rockwall around the same time that I was there. And one of the stories that we heard was he used cycled from Rockwool over to McCarthys, unfettered as a young man because he had a crush on my granddad, who would have been Kosice.

Older sister Ailene and I would go on to lead the country. Asti Sugan, President, Ghostwood Allnut, his county on the field of play.

So I don't know what relationship Gossiper had with there afterwards. I know there's a lot of time on the run around here. There was a lot of safe houses here.

The sports were such a part of the fabric of life back then that there was bound to be a crossover between the political situation and sport.

And of course, Bloody Sunday didn't take place in isolation from 1918.

On, the British army began to stop the games from taking place, stories like that of a commercial game at Shinton Man when Karpe where the players were going off the pitch and supporters attacked politicised Gaelic games.

When martial law was introduced, it was hard for players and supporters to travel, so the Geet organized killing Sunday in 1918, a national day of protest where every G8 team in Ireland was to play a game of football hardly without seeking permission from the authorities. Over 1800 games were played with 54000 players involved, a great act of defiance against the British authorities, the effect of Gaelic Sunday was to overturn that requirement for game matches, to need a license from the British.

As time goes on, I'm learning more about the background to the events and about those.

He was born in 1896. He was fast and skilful and he could kick from his right or his left foot, which would have been, I'm sure, unusual for the time. He would have he would have been lucky, says my granddad was a jockey. My grandparents were jockeys. There were boxers. They played cricket, soccer, polo. I have been shown a medal from a commemorative match played a year after Bloody Sunday.

If you look at this here, it's really unusual.

It's got a man holding a rifle on a pitch and regional football.

And two hours later, it was presented as a commemorative match a year later in 1921, which was played in. But I don't know what actually happened to the medal that Duska never seen one before, and it certainly never so would have held on. But it's a it's a lovely piece. Many young men like us were motivated to join the fight for Irish freedom after the events of November 1920.

I only found out the other day after he was shot at a Bloody Sunday, he joined the IRA. After doing a bit of research, I spoke to a nephew of horses and he said that after he'd been shot out as a reaction to that, he joined up.

It would have been strange and of course, to join the IRA as well, because his brother Chris, who lived next door, was in the British army and he served in the trenches. So but that was that wasn't unusual for the time. And I they wouldn't have joined the army. He was shot out on the pitch and escaped with his life, I suppose.

So his colleague, Mick Hogan, being killed on the pitch. By the spring of 2019, the cycle to Dublin was becoming a reality. I got a few people I knew from the cycling and Geet worlds interested, and I worked away on my training under 115 year old Hercules bike. When I was a kid, I lived on a bike in the past few years, I got back into cycling again, so I've got to get the bike ready here.

Now, today is absolutely gorgeous. You can hear the crows in the background. They're starting to nest. It's a really, really lovely spring day. So I'll go out and I'll probably go into the local village just like Rose Green. That'll bring me over there and that'll bring me back around to federate. I'll go towards kill it all and around in a circle. And I'd say I'll probably do about 45 miles training today and I'll keep building like that because on the day of the cycle, I've got to do 100 miles in a pretty short space of time.

So just line up. This is actually the hardest part. This is getting down to the bloody thing. You have to get your feet in and make sure they're properly in the stirrups and take off. Once you're going, put the foot head down, get it going again. And there's a tractor coming to.

This year, memorials to mark the event of 100 years ago are being erected all around Ireland and Jasper's family, one one for ghosts, one of just first training cycles, includes a stop at the cemetery where Goss is buried. Nearby is the grave of one of Goss's teammates on Bloody Sunday, Scott Butler. About halfway up the cemetery here on the left is the headstone as well, has been a pub and a restaurant. I'm also the local undertaker started undertaking when I was 13.

I was sent out in the hearse, so I knew enough. A lot of people who are in here, I'm getting a monument done to put on the grave to mark that. I'm going to put it on before the 100 year anniversary. It should have been done years ago. You know, there was no great picture celebrating because our Bloody Sunday here or whatever it was just it was because he was to probably 20 pictures of my grandfather on the wall.

Right. In an entry, you know that the horses were more celebrated than ghosts brothers on the football field. Brendan O'Riordan, who's making the new headstone for his grave, is in casual shorthand of so-called Confederate.

So I popped in to see the progress of very nearly finished with most of the heavy work done. And we have to dip into the strings and we have to defend the strings. And I don't like to walk off. We have to go ahead and deep that to not a bit, because a lot of information that's stolen a fair bit of information. Yeah, I was just going, are we going to lay it on the grave? Are we going to deal with standard?

That's limestone. That tells of three cases in Kilkenny. It's a blue limestone.

I Jesus sake, Margaret does go places around here that you get the limestone is good. Well, don't, OK.

I'm 90 years old now, and during my lifetime, Tipperary have won 18 sener hobbling our Leyland's. But I've never seen Tipperary win an all Ireland senior football championship, but back in 1920, things were very different to play. They were one of the top football teams in the country and vying for their fourth all Ireland football championship title.

Sometimes we forget that those people in the team pictures from back then were young men and like young men then and now, they're liked a bit of fun. Mick Nolan was a teammate, of course. His son Tony recalls his father telling him how the team would usually stay at Buddy's hotel in Dublin if they were up for the match.

So that turned out to be in Dublin very often.

The tough team and all this is bad is the Irish said and there was a Miss Harrington. She was the manageress. But Don, Dawn must be a bit of a trickster. Jimmy, don't you a descend on the top of the stairs, on or down the stairs, far down the stairs and clear dead at the bottom of the stairs and all under the panic.

You know, and imagine some demand that instead and this mind of this had a news conference.

The father had a problem of him in that section of his job, you know, but the autumn of 1920, the war of independence had left hundreds dead and the country was in turmoil. Ambushes, burnings and reprisals were common. The All Ireland football championship had to be abandoned by September due to rising tensions. But through all of this, sports continued to be a powerful expression of national identity.

The Bloody Sunday march a lot of people think of as a final or league match. It wasn't it was actually a benefit match for the wives and widows of those that were in prison. The fact that my grandma Kugels was there and played on the Tipperary team that day makes me determined to get everything right for the cycle I'm going on now.

We have volcanoes aspecific if you have to start getting SHOCKLEE an important part of cycling these days is getting fitted to your bike and what it wants it to do is to put your hands in the position that you that's international bike fitting expert, very much different to the handlebars that you have on more water.

Right.

So I want you to step in there and help because my 115 year old restored bike is so different to modern bikes, getting fitted gives me a big advantage. It's to make sure that things like your saddle, the right height, the handlebars, the right height and the reach, the distance between your saddle and the handlebars is correct as well.

My plan is to take that from fellate to Dublin, which is 160 k just initially looking at it, what do you think the first reaction, 16 may be like a brave man when you compare it to the modern bikes, like you've got a single speed on it.

There's no gears and it'll be a new experience.

Well, the conservatives is have to resolve this little bit, but also bring forward this as well. OK, OK, OK. If the adjustment is so, I let you hop up on the bike again and have a look and see if that's OK.

The help from Barry made a big difference. And over the early months of 2020, I was training hard.

I also persuaded Barry to join me on the circuit. OK. Oh, OK. Thank you. The goal is to complete the 100 mile journey by bike and then to walk out onto the Croke Park pitch in the shadow of those who played on Bloody Sunday.

I know had seven cycling friends interested in the trip from trip to Croke Park.

Tamang Felgate of Parts Unknown for the Polarizations.

Look, I'm Madeleine Hearn from the Ballina agrees. Mockler Parish D.A. Barbara Ryan from my last just outside. Whether that there Paul Kelly is my name.

Just delighted to be on the cycle with Jasper and and the crew.

Three of the cyclists on this road trip represented Pereira in Croke Park, Barbara Ryan, Tom and Angoulême and all star John Lahe, a man who I often watched on the field of play.

Well, I suppose the fact that he was so involved in Bloody Sunday, you know, it is always a huge pride in that kind of role not to play for Tipperary. We have a huge identity with Bloody Sunday and what, you know, with the G and what I suppose Tipperary have given to back down through the years. And, you know, you look at it from a point of view, would come to see in Ireland and hope would be named after Danbury.

And, you know, Sean Tracy will be so synonymous with all that era and everything, so innocent to be thinking of that kind of stuff. You know what I mean? Because we were representative as I got older there and I started to read up on it myself and to see what these men done for Tipperary and what they did just for typical for the country they were fighting for. So I was in a way, when you're playing sport, we're always looking for an extra head.

So a bit of motivation.

And you know what it would be that just didn't actually make it to the match on Bloody Sunday. The team travelled together on the train the day before. But like many people at the time, he travelled far and wide by bicycle. Barry Meakin has a theory about this. And the All Blacks only style bikes did cycle from Tipperary up to Dublin to matches to car to matches all over the country. But I think back then, people's lifestyles, they were working harder.

They were doing more physical work. They were physically stronger and fitted. And people are today they ought to be able to take on a challenge like cycling from Federer to Dublin. Nowadays, you have to do a lot of physical training on the bike. And I think that time people cycled everywhere. There were cycling to mass on a Sunday. If they were cycling to shop there, cycling to have hope, it was all done on the bike. We were trading regularly.

In spite of the Corbould restrictions, a break from lock down in the summer provided an opportunity. Geet headquarters gave the go ahead to visit Croke Park in July.

So after a final training session, the team gathered at the old kitchen at McCarty's to plan the journey to Dubbo.

So the team that were actually put in the back of the Rotunda is a table where the Bloody Sunday team met before they went to Dublin back in 1920. But most of the team did have a bit here before they went up to the Transitional Federal Left for Dublin. So this is kind of historical.

Case closed. So it was there.

So Valiante Palace Locana who and an ocean are an effort that it us out on to the old world, yet don't open car phone. So I presume in the days before leaving on the siku to Dublin, there's a few more things to do. One involves another visit to Joel Kenny, the man who found a photograph of Goss'.

Jor has also found another piece of history connected to the events of Bloody Sunday.

It's a recording of an interview with one of the players made by Louis O'Donnell from Fetta.

Louis was a famous boxer and a character as well, like in the talent. But he actually interviewed Scott Butler.

Was the goalie under the very team that I've only heard one other interview. He has very little there from the people who survived Bloody Sunday. And that's that's rare.

It was in the small little reel to reel tape and I transferred it then to digital. I'm hoping the tape will fill in some more details about the events in Croke Park before leaving for Dublin. I also need to check on the new headstone for Ghost.

Oh, I'm at Calvary Cemetery and I'm going to be meeting Brendan O'Riordan of here today. I've been waiting for the headstone to be put in, but I'm under a bit of pressure now. And they're having a wreath laying ceremony here in two days time. And the problem is he took away the old headstone and he hasn't got a new one in yet. So I'm hoping that it'll be here. I see. He's here. He's up to something and I'm good, how are you going?

Gosh, could you give me a fright on under pressure severe pressure, the wreath laying ceremony in two days time, you wouldn't be doing well when come off and the Ottomans removed. You put me under severe pressure and I'm only have to look at the plaque on the wall for the far right negociate and the sculptor and himself, of course, and will finish his Memorial Day. And I will be talking about an hour's time or so. All right.

So it'll be all right for you and for your Reedley. And I'll take a look just on the other side of it. Looking lovely. So has the Sun.

A very tea party in the middle of the middle stands out. I thought it looks really good. Yeah, I know. That's that's great.

Let me throw another to we're in the parties and it's the night before the big last night and we have our fun and unfortunately, the weather looks dreadful.

We've been watching it for the past week. This morning we all looked to the ABS and it said that we've got to start off pretty heavy rain tomorrow. It's only rained. The boys and the boys in Croke Park were dodging bullets, dodging a bit of water.

So it didn't get a lot of sleep that night thinking about the cycle and of course, and everyone involved in Bloody Sunday and what lay ahead for them 100 years ago the following morning. We're up early today is today. We're all gathering here, though, so the plan is we're going to have breakfast in McCarthys at the table where everybody's on the team left. One hundred years ago, everybody in good form. The weather we were expecting seems to pass over OK.

I suppose like the the big thing today is that if we get through safely, that's going to be really important. So when the roads are wet like that, they're going to be more greasy if you feel the piece is a bit too fast. And I suppose just for this especially applies to you because you're just one jerk.

Thank you.

If the pace a little bit to show a notch and the people at the front end just slow down a bit, like all good spokespeople, John Leahy did a bit of advance planning on the route a few days before relating to be straightforward enough up to Newbridge.

But from going into Newbridge, I think be extra careful. It was very busy with traffic now, I suppose as well, going into every town we want to be going single-file maybe. I know our cars are leaving, though. They're going to beat us and feed us and then they're just getting to their feet off again. Push us into a final touch. Are the cyclone tops?

We had made exact replicas of the jerseys the Tipperary team wore on the day their white jerseys with the green hoop across the center. And you've got Tipperary and Gold writing written across the top.

And we have a little Tipperary flag as well at the top. And of course, because we're cycling, we have the cycling pouches and cycling pockets at the back.

We have a back up crew of my wife Sarah and Paul Kelly's wife, Linda, carrying food, drink spare parts and try cycling gear.

Great.

100 years after the Tipperary team left from Feathered Railway Station, the cyclists leave on that 100 mile journey to Croke Park. But after coming into Dora, we're outside the castle gates and that in good time, we did it in just two hours, 11 minutes. Lovely. Spent bit of rain at the start for the bike is going to go as we come up through the villages, up through killing all palynology can go to Cortona. Who came out onto the main road up through Johnstone.

And here to our next topic, probably being in there going lovely.

We're looking for the jacks we got on the road again. We think they're OK again right here for them. Yeah. The train journey to Dublin 100 years ago was an eventful one for the Tipperary team. This is Tony Nolan, a son of Gus's teammate, Mick Nolan. It was a fight and undertrained soldiers going up on the train as well. And a priest got on and the squad, he started to abuse the priest. And I think Bill Ryan stood up for the priest and took on the squaddies.

So they cut Paul Ryan's boots and fired about the end of the train. And I think take him out at the wrong end of it as religious orders. So the rest of the prayer team charged in the turn out a couple of no doubt. And as far as I could make out, the further squaddies out the window, the train after the. So we found that they were expecting a harsh reception when they got up to the end of the continuum.

But the management of the Tipperary team at the time decided that they were going to stay in Barry's hotel. So they dispersed around the city and they put them in pubs and houses and whatever to make sure the team, they still had a team for the following day.

The secret from center to Doro have been pleasant, but suddenly we were in fast, heavy traffic on a road that was often very narrow. Fucking asshole. That was a tougher, much, much tougher they a wicked traffic after D'Oro and nearly got blown off the road a few times, I'm sure there will be nothing like that. Traffic will be no traffic on the road over two thirds of the way there. Now touch and feel good. Everybody is still feeling pretty fit and healthy.

So we've got to stop now, open the back of the van and have a good feed. I've never played in Croke Park, but my fellow cyclists, Barbara Ryan and Tamang them have. And it means a lot to them. I never forget running out in the pitch and even doing the warm up, you know, you're taking it all in, you're looking around. It's part of our history, you know, it's part of our identity as Jeffares and before I left, which I just picked a clump of grass from the from the pitch.

And I talked it into my sock. And I have that at home, which is a great feeling with a very footballer's back in the 90s.

It was a rare is a rare occurrence. So when we got eventually got onto onto the field that day in 92, it was huge, especially to play in the local park. So it just I just go to the play after boots and put them in a little brown envelope, which I still have.

OK, boys and girls talking about the final section from Kildare to Dublin is a peaceful run along the Grand Canal, avoiding the heavy traffic to tend to John for doing the Recchia this one. Oh God.

This is this is lovely belief that one of the family stories that goes swam the canal really to get away from the containers that were shooting under the bridge, under the bridge after the years of planning and more than seven hours on the road just before the team arrive at Houston station in Dublin, where the Tipperary team arrived 100 years before.

Yeah, we were here. That was fabulous. That's great to arrive. That's great to get to use the station where the team arrived. So we've got to stop here tonight in this hotel. And then tomorrow morning we're going back over to Houston. We start we head out park.

Absolutely incredible cycling by the canal there was stunning and just these really lovely bows out of class.

Yeah, I can give you an injury to enjoy the sun coming up. And did we didn't feel a hundred and sixty here. You know, it was great to have done it. And I think it was a pleasure to be part of you know, I think we can all look back on it. We don't know a bit from Bloody Sunday, 100 years on, you know, and I am proud. I don't I don't know it really enjoyable, you know, good crew, lovely bunch of people with a lot of.

100 years ago, the Tipperary players had no idea of the coming events. The assassinations by the irony of British intelligence officers on the morning of the game are the massacre at Croke Park in the afternoon. The killings at the match were a reprisal. The British have said that the killings weren't planned. They always said that they planned to go there, block the gates and search everybody on the way out and see if they could find arms, know when they when the picture was empty that day after the whole thing.

They did find a number of guns there.

But there's a lot of stuff like I think Collins told a lot of people not to go anywhere near Croke Park that day because he was certain there was going to be reprisals the following morning, a cyclocross the city brings the cyclists to Croke Park to pay their respects.

It's my understanding that I feel I don't know if it's some monument. 100 years ago, it was a small little field in the heart of Dublin. Now it's a monument as opposed to gay and gay culture all over the world. And you know the likes, of course. And those players, they made this what a lot of people don't realize is there was much of a revolution within the gay at grassroots as I was with guns. So I think, you know, this is a this is a monument to the Irish people to think like the Brits got in here a hundred years ago and opened up and executed people.

And look look where it is now. You know, it's it's the center of a world stage. Also at Croke Park today are family members of two of the victims of Bloody Sunday, Joe Trainor's from Dublin, and Gus's teammate Michael Holden of Jasper Johns.

Just you're just joining us. This is my cousin here. More I know we're never nieces of Joe Trayner, one of the people that was shot that day. And that's our connection. Right.

And so, yeah, it's nice that it's all being remembered. And, you know, it brought into this that this story has been it's been united with Tipperary in Dublin and all is coming together. Yeah. This is our side of our temporary, temporary, temporary.

So I suppose to have a Dublin Julian McCabe, who works in the museum in Croke Park, is connected by family to the events of Bloody Sunday.

I'm a granny and niece of Michael Hogan. Yeah, my mum would be his niece. So I'm Tullamore or my granny with Green Smokler. Yeah, yeah. To the right.

And that we will down there on the whole grandstanders named after her granduncle. So you have the two replica jerseys of the tape and Oakland jerseys from the days that they are actually from the Michael Collins fan. And you have a massacre in Newtown massacre from the day the referee's whistle mcfarlan. And we also have a memorial card for Jane Boyle, Danny Boyle, who was the only lady to be killed on Bloody Sunday.

The relatives are looking at one of the few photographs taken on the day of the match.

But the two teams are there because they're sitting on the bottom. That's right. That's right. That's my grandmother. All, you know, I always love about the the and the safe and the car turns. Oh, they were also addressed through the crowd. I think for all the mass, there's no photo of Michael Hogan on his own so that when they have it, I think it's pulled out of the same photos of him there.

For the relatives of Joe Trainor and Michael Hogan, their stories are well remembered. We grew up with this look from the youngest age we knew about this, the cemetery in blue barrel where he's buried and the headstone was put on. That grave was very Celtic cross. So, yeah, we were very, very familiar with the story and very conscious of it.

For me, I was just because I always liked history, I was always familiar with the story. And I remember doing my Leave CERT project that I'm thirty Sunday at the time. And, you know, so it's always was something that was there. But my mom says they didn't talk about it a whole lot.

I suppose in our case it was very different. I grew up in a different era in my family. She goes and his brothers were all jockeys. Somebody else was. It was it was all horses. And it was costly and bloody Sunday. Right. But it's only when I got more interested in the history that I started to investigate it. And then I got more into his history and like not only his sporting history, his military history and the IRA and the prison and stuff like that.

The real memories of that day are outside.

On the Croke Park pitch, the stadium was now one of the largest in report room for more than 82000 spectators, with the names from 100 years ago who are familiar with the canal and the hill, the railway gone.

So that's the way the minor teams would come out of Northern Ireland. Their this and you can see right across the whole grandstand and the yards for they're so expensive there as well. I remember the podium where the cops are presented in the middle of the view, the pits from here. The spot where Michael Hogan was shot was up around here.

Towards this end and near to the side that typically would have been down there, because I know Michael, of course, was right after which the match between Tipperary and Dublin on Sunday, November the 21st, 1920, was due to throw in at a quarter to three, which was a larger than anticipated attendance.

The game was delayed until half past 30 players lined out before referee Mick Salman and more than 5000 spectators lined the pitch. One of the few previously known recordings of players talking about the day is from Bill Ryan on the team in 1986. Her in the plane, come over the pitch, come down very low.

I don't think it's going to air a signal, of course, that the game was on after 10 minutes of play, the match was scoreless and then the shooting in a few minutes, Trasylol, to shoot the committee, looking at his five or six, 10 shots in quick succession.

The ball going through here and we're going to bring Gore. And Frank was only about 50.

And we had to have the Black and Tans, the RNC, the auxiliaries. They were already in place. And the shooting had started just minutes before the British army came.

Michael Nelson's uncle, George Trainer, was a spectator at the canal. And I think this was the canal.

And so it was at that end that Joe and his friends would have been standing.

And when the shooting broke out, people were fleeing everywhere, but they tried to escape over the back wall. And Joe and other people getting over the back wall, they were being shot at because the evidence that the military inquiry says that the people escaping over the wall at the canal and became the target of the shooting. Now that will account for Arabiyah was shot twice in the back, getting over the back wall to prove they were defending the gold of the canal.

And it was here that the actions of the tip Gali skulked butler saved lives.

Scout had been in the British army in the trenches during World War One. He was trained to react quickly under fire.

I taught me to when the first shots came, he ordered the teammates to lie flat on the pitch to avoid the bullets.

The camp. I was again an elf, but I started trying to keep the hold back.

I like doing the same thing as myself. I see. Had him do it until he came down within 48 hours.

As I go on, this recording of Scout has never been broadcast before.

When I was at this time side going down in the next rotation, actually making the whole race at our side and the penguins jumping in here and down.

And the next thing she was Jimmy going to the Prairie Quay in flirting with the captain, Bill Ryan.

There are going to the whole grandstand, you know, and they were on their question.

McCarthy went the same way they went scout and the other players scrambled out of power through the back yards of a row of houses.

I was here at the day, was at the back of the railway line. The time was right. And then five seconds to get out. So I got out. I got out there and because I mean, hands and knees and windows to people's faces and everything dropped out. You got a bunch of like in comes in and here we are. I see Hawkins first he asked me to know where are going was I said, you remember? I said the last one I had.

I said I left it in front of me. Come on.

And he just had not only that, the charge that we should get over that right at this point, Scows thought he was about to be shot, but I talked with the usual catch.

No escape. Yes, but got all of it. I mean, he said for the window, he said to me, This is the seat. I'm going to keep doors open. This is all Jane Boyin, James Bartók, Michael Feary, James Matyas Particle Doubt, Jerome O'Leary, William Robinson, John William Scott and George Train all from Dublin, died on the day or shortly after Tom Ryan from Wexford and Tom Horgan from Limerick.

And three Tipperary men, Daniel Carter, James Teahen and Gus's teammate Michael McColgan were all killed on Bloody Sunday. Of course, was lucky he actually got away and stayed away, they never found him, and when they get back at very his hotel later on that day, Michael Hogan was missing. And so it goes. So they presume that Gus had been shot as well, but he turned up later. So the family in the local area maybe would have had, you know, people would have come in and they would have helped them and things like that.

So local story here as well. And the party's over and, you know, it really is. And can you imagine that going on and, you know, just up the road from you or someone coming flying by trying to escape something that's terrific.

But what we heard was that somebody heard when Gus was running down the street, a lady came to a door that we've never been able to find out if this is true or not. But a lady came to the door and asked if there was trouble in the attic, and he said, yeah, we've been shot at. So she took him in and she hid him under a bed. And seemingly we were told he stayed there for two days. Standing to one side and taking it all in is John Leahy, the temporary all star who has felt all the emotion of the pitch here at Croke Park.

It was one thing I could come back and talk about is to to be in the dressing room and to feel that, you know, that that was enough and put it under Tiberio Jersey and, you know, listen to the team speech. And then when they played here, it's a different ways to come out from the corner to call parranda and the island, but to hear the roar and that it is just an almighty kind of you know, you get to the goose pimples, feel that you're going out, you know, when you're representing your you know, your club, your parish or county.

And again, you know, going back to these Sundays and the very people involved, that would be all part of it. And we still play a sport for an identity of who we are and oarsmen. I have no doubt that they were playing that for that huge identity, not just waiting for the counties, they're playing for their country and our freedom and our. Sean, you know, we're going ahead with our national game no matter what. The Bloody Sunday massacre does Croke Park touches a raw nerve and the collective memory, a tragedy that turned the tide of public opinion against the British and helped to bring the Irish war of independence to an end.

When I look at the photograph of my grandmother, because I'm glad I got to know him better, he carried on playing and be part of that game and he carried on Safinia matches and he lived in it for the rest of his life. He was married but had no children, and he died in 1970 when I was only two. One thing he'll always be remembered for his as the last man to score for Teef in Holland senior football final 100 hundred years ago, there was no other than the Final Four.

Then they played the 1920 Ireland final in 1922 to versus Dublin and Goss' had the last kick of the match over the bar. So he's the last one to score in a winning Tipperary senior football team ever in Croke Park.

So at least we end on a happy note. The 1922 playing of the 1920 All Ireland football final saw Dublin ahead by one two to three points at half time. But O'Shay and the Tipperary back nine hole Dublin off in the second half. And in the closing minutes of the game goes McHattie, the Tipperary Cardinal Forward shoot some play and scores.

You've been listening to 100 years, 100 Miles, narrated by Mihajlo Mira Hurtig. It was produced by Vincent, Jasper Morphy and myself, Tim Desmond. We return in two weeks time with new episodes of the Nobody's On. Until then, thanks for listening.