1. Northern Ireland and Bloody Sunday
... people who distrust the British are still influenced by this result of bloody Sunday. Other eye-witness accounts did differ; one bystander noted, "it was a massacre. I saw no shooting at the troops. I saw only the army shooting"6. This became the central interpretation of Bloody Sunday to most Catholics as the statement was made by a holy man who had vowed to ... in this March they encapsulated everything they hoped for and felt was wrong in Northern Ireland. When the British army shot at the marchers the Nationalist Northern Irish once again saw their view and interpretation of the "ty...
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