PETER PRINGLE AND PHILIP JACOBSON. Grove/Atlantic, $25 (320p) ISBN 0-8021-1680-9 In the Irish Republic, January 30, 1972, is known as "Bloody Sunday," the day when 13 unarmed Catholic marchers were killed and another 14 wounded as, Pringle and Jacobson say, "part of...

On the morning of Bloody Sunday, Martin McGuinness got up at about 9am and went to Mass - he may have been second-in-command of a group that was killing a lot of soldiers, but that did not rule out his religious observance. He had...

The New York Film Society of Lincoln Center continues its month-long series of reappraisals of gifted—and even honored-in-their-own-time—film icons, with a four-film revival May 25 and May 26 of John Schlesinger’s British-made Billy Liar (1963) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and his American-made Midnight Cowboy...

A former state trooper surrendered Thursday on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest, a killing that led to the "Bloody Sunday" march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.Former trooper James Bonard Fowler,...

Bloody Sunday - January 30th 1972 - What happened and why?

Reviews the poem Those Are Real Bullets- Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972, by Peter Pringle and Philip Jacob. Details the incident known as Bloody Sunday, when British paratroopers opened fire on unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators in Derry, killing thirteen and wounding another fourteen. Describes the author's use of symbolism, punctuation and vocabulary and the violent relationship between actions and words.