I have a recurrent nightmare associated with Bloody Sunday. As a young BBC reporter, I missed the terrible events, having covered blood on the sand at Magilligan strand the previous Sunday. Looking ahead to the next Sunday, it was to come at the end of an all too predictable week of murder and mayhem. January 30th was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bloody Sunday’
Then and now – reflections on new beginning from a Derry born reporter
Jun 17th, 2010 by Brian Walker.Bloody Sunday: Melancholy replaced by new hope and old humour…
Jun 16th, 2010 by Mick Fealty.One of our Derry Essayists, Garbhan Downey has this take on what yesterday means for the modern city in the Guardian today: While Bloody Sunday will never be forgotten, our cultural emphasis has evolved. Seamus Heaney anticipated as much in The Cure of Troy (1990), when he envisioned “a great sea-change on the far side [...]
Unjustified and Unjustifiable
Jun 15th, 2010 by Mark Nagurski.While the broad strokes of what the Saville Report would conclude have been widely speculated upon for some time, the thumbs up through the windows of the Guidhall will rightfully take their place amongst the iconic images in the history of both this city and Northern Ireland as a whole. And with those simple gestures [...]
The Weight of 38 Years
Jun 15th, 2010 by Mark Nagurski.Having grown up largely in California, Bloody Sunday was never a part of the history I was taught at school. It wasn’t until I returned to the city in my early teens that its importance began to take shape in my mind. My knowledge of what took place came from conversations, from the murals, from [...]
