 His time in Dublin, which included writing the British response to Bloody Sunday in November 1920, was controversial.Sinn Féin's newspaper, the "Irish Bulletin", accused him of inventing stories and more recently historians have accused him of putting out false information to discredit Sinn Féin and the IRA.But a 2013 biography of Clarke has suggested that while some of the statements issued by his office were incorrect, there is no strong evidence this was done deliberately.