Don Mullan, Producer, BLOODY SUNDAY | DePaul VAS

Don Mullan is an author, humanitarian, and media producer who witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday firsthand on January 30, 1972. He is a supporter of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement. His first book, Eyewitness Bloody Sunday (1997), became a bestseller and is officially recognized as a primary catalyst in the establishment of the new Bloody Sunday Inquiry, the longest running and most expensive in British legal history. The inquiry led to an historic apology by Prime Minister David Cameron on June 15, 2010. Mullan’s humanitarian work has included efforts in Brazil, Rwanda, South Africa, The Philippines and Haiti. He was awarded the Defender of Human Dignity award in 2003 by the International League for Human Rights at the United Nations. He was NOKIA (Ireland) Ambassador from 2006 to 2009, during which created the world’s first exhibition by an amateur photographer based entirely on mobile phone photography. In 2011, he joined DePaul University as a special advisor and guest lecturer in The School of Public Service in 2011, where he will assist with development of DePaul’s Peace and Justice Programs. His current Peace and Humanitarian projects include: Creator and International Ambassador of The 1914 Christmas Truce Project for the town of Messines, Belgium; European Ambassador for the Pelé Little Prince Hospital Research Institute and Creator of the Pelé Peace Medal; and creator and co-founder of the Frederick Douglass and Daniel O’Connell Ireland/USA Project, which aims to strengthen links between Ireland and the USA and the great Diasporas of Ireland and Africa in America, with Haiti its primary focus. His credits in cinema, in addition his work as source writer, actor, and co-producer on Bloody Sunday, include co-producer on Omagh (2004, directed by Pete Travis, written by Guy Hibbard and Paul Greengrass) and associate producer on Five Minutes to Heaven (2009, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by Guy Hibbard) which starred James Nesbit and Liam Neeson. Moderated by Matt Quinn, Assistant Professor