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    Butcher's Dozen
    Butcher's Dozen
    Butcher's Dozen
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    Butcher's Dozen

    By Thomas Kinsella

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    To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet is proud to publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateMar 31, 2022
    ISBN9781800171664
    Butcher's Dozen
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    Thomas Kinsella

    Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. He was educated at University College, Dublin and entered the Irish Civil Service before becoming a full-time writer and teach in the USA. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and of essays, and editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.

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      Butcher's Dozen - Thomas Kinsella

      CONTENTS

      Title Page

      from

      The Saville Report

      Butcher’s Dozen (1972)

      from

      Bloody Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron’s

      Parliament Statement, 15 June 2010

      Note on the Poem

      by Thomas Kinsella

      Also by Thomas Kinsella

      Copyright

      BUTCHER’S DOZEN

      from

      THE SAVILLE REPORT

      ~ CHAPTER 5: THE OVERALL ASSESSMENT ~

      5.2 The soldiers of Support Company who went into the Bogside did so as the result of an order by Colonel Wilford, which should not have been given …

      5.4 … (The) soldiers reacted by losing their self-control and firing themselves, forgetting or ignoring their instructions and training and failing to satisfy themselves that they had identified targets posing a

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