This is the story of the longest legal proceedings in British or Irish history in the raw words of those most intimately involved. Twenty-one wounded survivors and relatives of the dead describe the campaign which led to the establishment of the Inquiry under Lord Saville. The publication puts a new focus on State atrocities, perceptions of truth and aspirations for the future of Ireland. Eamonn McCann was central to the formation of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign. Throughout the 1990s McCann’s tireless investigative journalism led to countless articles in the local Derry papers, in the Belfast Telegraph, The Irish Times, the Sunday Tribune, in the London Independent, The Guardian, and The Observer.