Profile
Peter Pringle
Philip Jacobson and Peter Pringle were the original Sunday Times Insight investigators into the events of Bloody Sunday. Philip is now a veteran foreign correspondent who was most recently chief of The Times bureau in Paris. He has co-authored bestselling books on Northern Ireland and the 1973 Middle East War, and a biography of Aristotle Onassis. Married with two sons, he now lives in London.
THOSE ARE REAL BULLETS, AREN’T THEY?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972
An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.
Publication date: UK 29th Jul 2011
THOSE ARE REAL BULLETS, AREN’T THEY?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972
An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.
Publication date: UK 30th Jan 2001