Black Monday, Dublin, 1209 – when a group of 500 recently arrived settlers from Bristol were massacred by warriors of the Gaelic O'Byrne clan. The group had left the safety of the walled city of Dublin to celebrate Easter Monday near a wood at Ranelagh, when they were attacked without warning. For centuries afterwards, this event was commemorated by a mustering of soldiers on the day as a challenge to the native tribes.
Black Monday, 14 April1360 – the army of Edward III during the Hundred Years' War was struck by hailstorms, lightning and panic, causing considerable loss of life on Easter Monday.
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The Getaway: BlackMonday (which recently appeared, fittingly enough, at the Cannes Film Festival) maintains much of the mechanical structure of its forebear, preferring to augment the original's technology and gameplay in minor but effective ways while wholesale changes are reserved for its storytelling and presentation.
He's a slightly suspicious character, but as his nine-chapter story unfolds he makes serious headway in the fight to unmask the culprits behind this particular BlackMonday, and Team Soho reckons we'll be drawn in by his story and grow to empathise with him the same way we did with Hammond and Carter.
Garang's August 6 funeral in Juba was quiet, but the rioting has laid bare structural tensions that persist as the Khartoum government and the SPLM seek to consolidate a permanent peace on the north-south front of Africa's longest-running civil war.
Like the war itself, the unrest on what Sudanese term "flMonday" has been widely depicted as driven by ethnic or religious hostility between the "Arab" Muslim north and the "African" Christian and animist south.
"BlackMonday" and the succeeding events have certainly highlighted the fragility of the peace on the north-south front and underscored the weakness of a deal that excludes rebels in Darfur and parts of the east.
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