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This month, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday on November 21, the Abbey Theatre partners for the first time with the GAA to give voice to the 14 men, women and children who were killed in Croke Park on that day, in 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. Although he came from a unionist background in Belfast, he saw with awful clarity the injustice of the city of his childhood. 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