"Bloody Sunday" is a film starring James Nesbitt about a Catholic civil rights' march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Although the movie came out in 2002, the real march it depicts took place exactly thirty years before that. The movie has won seventeen awards and has been nominated for twenty-two more. Its soundtrack includes "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2. Personally, I loved this movie for sticking to the facts and showing both halves of the story; the watcher really did not know what political standpoint the director had. We are left to make our own opinion. The real Bloody Sunday took place in the end of January, 1972 after the passing of a law stating that anyone could be arrested without trial for connection with the Irish Republican Army. Although this law was made out of the desperate state of an already weakening British government, it infuriated Catholics, sparking numerous riots in the early 1970's. Beacause the Irish Republic is dominantly Catholic, these people were the ones put into jail, never Protostants. Even after being warned by the government not to continue with the scheduled march, leaders of the protest were detirmined to show their right towards freedom of speech. When the British announced that the march would be deemed illegal if carried out, Catholics felt even more reason to go on with their plans. The march was supposed to be a "peaceful" one, containing infants to senior citizens. This was soon proven wrong. In attempt to slow down the illegal march, the British army blocked the riot's route and, soon, gunfire broke out. The army insisted that they were threatened by armed Provisionals, otherwise known as members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, although increasing evidence shows this statement improbable. Whoever was to blame on that day is, on the papers, unknown, although fourteen are known to have died, most of them seventeen. Two were nearly killed after being run over by Army personal carriers and two boys, ages sixteen and fiften, were hospitalized after nearly being shot to death. Without sounding biased, I will have to mention that all those dead were Catholic marchers. Further details of those killed and maimed will be posted below. Further information can be found at www.bbc.co.uk and www.cain.ulst.ac.uk 

tp://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/bloody_sunday/gallery/shot_400.jpg Jump to: navigation, search James Nesbitt (born January 15, 1965) also known as Jimmy Nesbitt is a Northern Irish actor from Coleraine best known in the United Kingdom for his role in the ITV drama series Cold Feet. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto: Quis separabit (Latin: Who will separate?) Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685,267... U2 can mean: The Irish rock band U2 The Lockheed U-2 spy plane The U-2 Spy Plane Crisis of 1960 Unterseeboot 2, German submarine The Polikarpov U-2 (Po-2) biplane The U2 electric guitar by Danelectro, a 1956 twenty-two fret single-cutaway with two single-coil... Jump to: navigation, search The West Cork Flying Column during the War of Independence. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation. ...

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Age Name: 59 John Johnston (died a day later in the hospital) 41 Bernard McGuigan 34 Geral McKinney 31 Patrick Dohetry 22 James Wray 20 Michael McDaid 19 William Nash 17 John Young 17 John Duddy 17 Kevin McElhimey 17 Gerald Donaghy 17 Hugh Gilmore

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