Irish Friday

  

Top O'the Mornin' to ya! Friday and St. Patrick's Day, does it get any better? Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my Irish friends and readers! But, then again, we are all Irish on this day anyway! Kick back, grab a Guinness and enjoy the day!

Video Friday as usual! There have been many great irish rock bands, I will leave you with one of the best, U2.

On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, twenty-seven people were shot by British soldiers after a civil rights march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Derry MP Ivan Cooper to protest the internment of Irishmen in Northern Ireland.

Thirteen people were shot dead, with another man later dying of his wounds. The official army position was that the Paratroopers had reacted to the threat of gunmen and nail-bombs from suspected IRA members. However, many witnesses (including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists) challenge the army's account - their claims include that soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded. Some also claim that the soldiers were not fired upon. No British soldier was hit by any bullet, nor were any bullets recovered after the fact. In the rage that followed, the British embassy in Merrion Square in Dublin was burned by an irate crowd. Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs, going specially to the United Nations in New York to demand UN involvement in the Northern Ireland troubles.

This incident was featured in U2's song "Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (U2)

CHEERS!