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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bloody Sunday (1920)
Bloody Sunday was a day of violence on November 21, 1920 in Dublin, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), which led to the deaths of more than 30 people.
Bloody Sunday had its origins in the Irish War of Independence, which followed the formation of a unilaterally declared Irish Republic and its parliament, Dáil Éireann.
The Croke Park Massacre on the afternoon of Bloody Sunday is usually blamed on the Auxiliaries.
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  Bloody Sunday (1920) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bloody Sunday of 1920 is a term used to describe a day of violence in Dublin on November 21st 1920, during the Irish War of Independence (1919-21), which led to the deaths of more than 30 people.
Bloody Sunday had its origins in the Irish War of Independence (1919-21), which followed the formation of an unilaterally declared Irish Republic and its parliament, Dáil Éireann.
The Croke Park Massacre on the afternoon of Bloody Sunday is usually blamed on the Auxiliaries.
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 Bloody Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bloody Sunday (1913), violence in Dublin on 31 August 1913 during the Dublin Lockout
Bloody Sunday (1939), during the Siege of Warsaw, 10 September 1939
Bloody Sunday (1965), violence during the Selma to Montgomery marches on 7 March 1965
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 Bloody Sunday - Wikipedia
D'an 30 a viz Genver 1972 e oa bet savet ur vanifestadeg peoc'hiek e Derry (Doire) (Iwerzhon an Norzh) evit ingalded ar gwirioù etre ar gatoliked hag ar brotestanted.
Bloody Sunday eo an anv roet d'an devezh-se e-lec'h ma oa bet lazhet 14 manifester gant arme Breizh-Veur.
Savet eo bet ar film Bloody Sunday hag a zispleg ar fedoù-man gant Paul Greengrass e 2002.
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 Bloody -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The origins of the United Kingdom's objection to "bloody" may be in part due to the connotations of Bloody Mary, most commonly referring to a particularly divisive queen of England notorious for her violent suppression of anti-Catholic views.
Bloody Sunday (1905), violence in Saint Petersburg on 22 January 1905.
The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials in September 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England.
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 30 jaar Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was the culmination of vicious repressive measures used against the Catholic population of Northern Ireland in the early 1970s.
Bloody Sunday's tragic events, the British state's bitter revenge, had a huge impact across Ireland with a general strike in the South.
Bloody Sunday deepened the crisis for British imperialism which found that its methods had acted as a recruiting sergeant for the Provisional IRA.
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 History Ireland Feature - Bloody Sunday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The events of Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, are generally regarded as having marked a decisive turning-point in the military struggle between the British forces and the IRA, the military wing of the underground Dáil government.
Bloody Sunday also marked an emotional turning-point in the War of Independence and has gone down as a central event in nationalist history.
Of all the statements known to have been made after Bloody Sunday, this is believed to be the only one made by a GAA official to the British authorities.
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 Gaelic Athletic Association - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sunday, November 21, 1920 was a fl day for the Gaelic Athletic Association and a fl day in the history of the War of Independence.
Dublin had been scheduled to play Tipperary on that day, however, on the night before the match the leader of the Irish revolutionary forces, Michael Collins, had ordered the assassination of the "Cairo Gang", 14 British intelligence officers sent to infiltrate his organisation under the guise of commercial travellers.
1920: Twelve spectators and a player, Michael Hogan, are killed in Croke Park during a raid by Black and Tans.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/GAA   (1722 words)

  
 Bloody Sunday (1920) Summary
Bloody Sunday of 1920 is a term used to describe a day of violence in Dublin on November 21st 1920, during the Irish War of Independence (1919-21), which led to the deaths of 31 people.
Discusses the Northern Ireland tragedy known as Bloody Sunday.
Describes the Northern Ireland conflict known as Bloody Sunday.
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 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - 2002 NYFF entry-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"Bloody Sunday" shares a kind of aesthetic sisterhood with Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down," a point of comparison apt to be seized upon by the media: Both are antiwar movies that convey their messages through a straightforward accounting of war.
PARK CITY -- "Bloody Sunday" is an autopsy of a film, a provocative dramatization of the raging events that led up to one of the most appalling confrontations in the Irish-British wars that continue in Northern Ireland.
Aesthetically, "Bloody Sunday" bangs along like a cab ride where the driver speaks in a foreign tongue and you're jarred all the way with swirls and quick stops and the constraint crackle of the receiver, where only every seventh or eight word can be distinguished.
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 Sunday Bloody Sunday
The premise of the song is based on Bloody Sunday; however, there is debate as to which one U2 is referring to.
The original Irish Bloody Sunday occurred in Dublin in 1920 where 14 rebels were shot by the “Black and Tans” as a response to an Irish Republican Army assassination plot towards British Government officials.
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” is not a protest song like Dylan would sing that focused on the causes of injustice.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~hynes/309K/student_websites/McMillin/sunday_bloody_sunday.html   (421 words)

  
 Bloody Sunday (Ireland) - MSN Encarta
Bloody Sunday (Ireland), incident in Northern Ireland in 1972 in which a number of protestors taking part in a banned march in Londonderry (Derry) were shot by the British Army.
In Ireland, for 50 years the term “Bloody Sunday” evoked a memory of November 21, 1920, when 14 British secret service men were simultaneously killed by the Irish Volunteers in their Dublin homes, and in retaliation Auxiliary police killed 12 spectators and players and injured 60 others at a Dublin football match.
But since Sunday January 30, 1972 the term has been re-applied to the shooting of 26 men, 13 fatally, by the British Army in Londonderry following a banned march protesting against internment (imprisonment without trial).
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781561891/Bloody_Sunday_(Ireland).html   (554 words)

  
 Bloody Sunday Review - Variety.com
Writer-director Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday" is born out of this scabbed-over sensibility, and it is a stunning work, revisiting controversial events with journalistic objectivity and a meticulous eye for detail.
"Bloody Sunday" shares a kind of aesthetic sisterhood with Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down," a point of comparison apt to be seized upon by the media: Both are antiwar movies that convey their messages through a straightforward accounting of war.
And "Bloody Sunday" is the better film; the camera drops imperceptibly into the background, observing performances that seem caught by chance, unawares.
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 Sunday Summary
Sunday is traditionally the first day of the Judaeo-Christian seven-day week, between Saturday and Monday, and the second day of the weekend in some cultures.
In Justin's time, Christians usually called Sunday the Lord's Day (because they observed it as a weekly memorial of Jesus Christ's resurrection) or "the Eighth Day" (because of the Christian belief that Christ's resurrection on the day following the seventh-day Sabbath is a portal to timeless eternity that transcends the seven-day weekly cycle).
Easter Sunday, the day in the Bible on which Christ rose from the dead, celebrated across the Christian world and regarded as the most important day in the Christian calendar.
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 SAOIRSE32: CIA Study: Michael Collins and Bloody Sunday
His remarks after the bloody execution of a number of British intelligence officers and informants bring out this aspect of his character.
Despite the confusion, Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy, who both had participated in the liquidation of Bloody Sunday, along with an innocent visitor to Dublin were arrested and taken to Dublin Castle, where shortly thereafter they were executed.
Bloody Sunday remains a day of infamy in British history: and the day after remains equally infamous in Irish history.
fenian32.blogspot.com /2006/05/cia-study-michael-collins-and-bloody.html   (3023 words)

  
 Jan. 30—Bloody Sunday commemoration at Plough & Stars — Bridge News Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If the term “Bloody Sunday” had only been a moniker for the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, it would have been enough of an egregious description for a massacre.
Thanks in part to the continued popularity of the U2 song “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” released in 1983, the tragedy in Derry has at least been kept in the public eye—even if that means just for the toe-tapping and finger-clicking legions of the band’s fans.
That a single phrase such as “Bloody Sunday” could span an entire century to define three atrocities is remarkable.
bridgenews.org /news/0207/bloodyplough/newsitem_view?month:int=5&year:int=2007   (494 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Bloody Sunday: How Michael Collins' Agents, Assassinated Britain's Secret Service in Dublin on November ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sunday, November 21, 1920, was a decisive day in the Irish nation's long, bloody struggle for independence from Great Britain.
It was on that day that fourteen British secret agents in Dublin were assassinated, an act that shattered the British intelligence system in Ireland and made it possible for a small, ill-equipped force of irregulars to impose its will on its centuries-old oppressor.
Bloody Sunday tells the exciting behind-the-scenes story of the events that led up to the operation and gives a completely new appraisal of "the troubles." It shows Michael Collins as the brilliant leader that he was, and it disperses the fables and fiction that have grown up around Ireland's War of Independence.
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 d2r: how long must we sing this song?
I originally wanted to contrast the day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, when 13 innocent people were shot dead in Derry by the British army, with Easter Sunday.
However, the lyrics to "Sunday Bloody Sunday" were actually begun by The Edge while Bono was away on his honeymoon.
Sunday Bloody Sunday -- Suddenly, U2 entered the political arena with a song which linked Ireland's two Bloody Sundays, 1920 and 1971, with the crucifixion ("The real battle is begun / To claim the victory Jesus won / On a Sunday, bloody Sunday").
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 'Old foes' return to Bloody Sunday site - Telegraph
So too Jane Boyle, dressed in her Sunday best, who had attended the match with her fiance and was to have got married five days later, and William Scott, a fanatical 14-year-old 'Dub' or Dublin supporter.
The first Bloody Sunday, that is. The second followed 52 years later in Derry.
Bloody Sunday took place soon after the death of hunger striker Terence McSwiney and execution of Kevin Barry, and the Irish Republican Army were looking for revenge.
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 ireland.com - The Irish Times - IRELAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
March 20th 1920: Tomás MacCurtain, the Lord Mayor of Cork and commandant of the 1st Cork Brigade of the IRA, is shot dead by a masked gang at his home.
November 21st 1920: "Bloody Sunday" begins with the assassination of 14 undercover British intelligence agents by an IRA squad organised by Michael Collins.
November 28th 1920: An entire patrol of 18 auxiliaries at Kilmichael, west Cork, is wiped out by a flying column under the command of General Tom Barry in what would be one of the most effective and bloody IRA ambushes of the war.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/special/1999/eyeon20/1920f.htm   (798 words)

  
 Bloody Sunday Trust- How you can help the Trust.
Bloody Sunday Trust- How you can help the Trust.
The B-Specials were established in December 1920 as part of the restructuring of policing in the north of Ireland, with a membership of approximately 12,000.
Relatives, wounded and their supporters c0me together to establish the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign.
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 Jim Curtis' Three Rivers Michigan Bloody Mary Home Page
The Bloody Mary was invented by Fernand "Pete" Petiot, a bartender at Harry's New York Bar in Paris during the 1920's.
The other is that one of the boys where Petiot was bartending suggested the drink be called Bloody Mary because it reminded him of the Bucket of Blood Club in Chicago, and a girl there named Mary.
He grabbed a stalk of celery from the relish tray to stir his Bloody Mary and history was made.
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 U2MoL - War - Sunday Bloody Sunday
The original Bloody Sunday occurred in Dublin when 14 people were shot by the "Black and Tans" in response to an IRA assasination campaign against government officials.
The second Bloody Sunday occurred in the city of Derry on 30 Jan 1972 when soldiers from the Parachute Regiment attempted to break up a Civil Rights demonstration.
The 'Bloody Sunday' is the 30:th of January 1972.
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 Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 Songfacts
The first was in 1920 when British troops fired into the crowd at a football match in Dublin in retaliation for the killing of British undercover agents.
Nee, Smallville, Canada - Whilst we are all well aware there have been a lot of bloody Sundays in history, Bloody Sunday is the name given to a particular event in Irish History and that is why it is mentioned in the title of the song.
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" was indeed performed regularly on the later legs of the 1997/98 PopMart tour.
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 RevolutionaryLeft.com -> Bloody Sunday - how many were there?
Bloody Sunday in Russia, involved a demonstration outside the Tsar's Winter Palace when Russian guards shot the protestors.
The shift in different stages of the revolution, like the transition from revolution to counterrevolution, is directly determined by changing political relations between the minority and the majority, between the vanguard and the class.
Yes, the 21st November 1920 the Black and Tans (British helping the Royal Irish Constabulary) were responsible for this 12 killed, 60 injured in Croke Park.
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 Online Etymology Dictionary
Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Du.
Bloody Mary, the drink, is from 1956, named for Mary Tudor, queen of England 1553-58, who earned her epithet for vigorous prosecution of Protestants.
Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when 13 civilians were killed by British troops at protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=bloody   (67 words)

  
 murph1206bloodysunday1206
In early 1920, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) began a guerrilla war against England and quickly succeeded in clearing out vast districts of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC); that were ever England’s right arm in Ireland.
After Bloody Sunday, the authorities had arrested Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill, more as a gesture than anything else, and deValera, still in America raising money for the war, decided to return to Ireland.
This is the story of Bloody Sunday, told from the viewpoints of Michael Collins, Sean Culhane and some of the other Irish rebels who fought for Irish Freedom.
www.homestead.com /ourpipedreams/murph1206bloodysunday1206.html   (1293 words)

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