Gail Sheehy march and as British soldiers moved in when the boy was struck in the face by a bullet. That day, January 30, 1972, became known as Bloody Sunday or the Bogside Massacre. Sheehy was trapped inside a Catholic ghetto which was under the authority of the IRA. She made her escape in a car over pastureland to Dublin. There Sheehy traveled to several safe houses and interviewed Rita O'Hare. The whole experience affected Sheehy deeply and on her return to the States she had a difficult time writing the story and developed a fear of airplanes which she later described
Goliad massacre "Song of Myself", section 34, which features in his collected poems titled "Leaves of Grass". In 1938, the monument to Fannin and his men was erected at the gravesite. It features an Art Deco relief sculpture and the names of the men who were slain. The Goliad Massacre claimed the lives of nearly 350 soldiers. Goliad massacre The Goliad massacre was an event that occurred on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, following the Battle of Goliad in which 425-445 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas were killed by the Mexican Army in