U2's Song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" Was based on what event?

Question

I love that song, but i get conflicting responses from friends on what they are singing about.

Answer 1

There are 2 Bloody Sundays in Irish history. 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. The second was on January 30, 1972, when British paratroopers killed 13 Irish citizens at a civil rights protest in Derry, Northern Ireland. The song is more about the second Bloody Sunday.

U2 performed this in Croke Park, the site of the 1972 Bloody Sunday in Dublin.

While performing this, Bono would wave a white flag as a call for peace.

Bono was trying to contrast the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre with Easter Sunday, a peaceful day Protestants and Catholics both celebrate

U2 recorded this in Denver for their Rattle And Hum movie on November 8, 1987. It was the same day as the Enniskillen massacre, where 13 people in Northern Ireland were killed by a bomb detonated by the Irish Republican Army (the IRA). Angered by these events, U2 gave a very emotional performance.

The lyrics are a nonpartisan condemnation of the historic bloodshed in Ireland. Politics is not something you want to discuss in Ireland.

Answer 2

Bloody Sunday January 30th 1972 in the city of Derry. Other and better songs have covered this terrible event. There's also a great movie about it called Bloody Sunday, see it don't learn about it from a U2 song.

Answer 3

In 1983, U2 returned with apparently a newfound sense of direction and the release of their third album, War. The album included the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday," which dealt with the troubles in Northern Ireland, including the IRA, using religious imagery and what many considered as forceful and almost rebellious lyrics. The ability to use a range of powerful images, taking a song initially about sectarian anger, and turn it into a call for Christians to unite and claim victory over death and evil, proved to many that the band was capable of deep and meaningful songwriting.

Furthermore, as captured in the concert film Rattle and Hum, during the performance of the song on 8 November, 1987 in the USA, the day after the IRA bombing in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in which 11 people were killed during a Remembrance Day service (see Remembrance Day Bombing), Bono denounced the violence in Ireland and the Irish-American expatriates who supported it. Unlike the style and emotions conveyed by other musicians in the early 1980s, many saw in Bono anger and passion that were palpable.

Answer 4

The band has said it refers to the events of both Bloody Sunday (1972) and Bloody Sunday (1920) in Irish history but is not specifically about either event.[10] It takes the standpoint of someone who is horrified by the cycle of violence in the province. In early attempts, Bono wanted to contrast the two events with Easter Sunday, but he has said that the band was too inexperienced at the time to fully reach that goal.[9]

Answer 5

Bloody Sunday is a real event: On January 30, 1972, soldiers from the British Army's 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilian demonstrators in the Bogside, Derry, Ireland, near the Rossville flats, killing 13 and wounding a number of others. One wounded man later died from illness attributed to that shooting.

The march, which was called to protest internment, was "illegal" according to British government authorities. Internment without trial was introduced by the British government on August 9, 1971.

The British-government-appointed Widgery Tribunal found soldiers were not guilty of shooting dead the 13 civilians in cold blood.

Answer 6

The music is approximately an incident in Northern eire that got here approximately on 30 January 1972. IRA terrorists, utilising a non violent demonstration by utilising Catholics in the Northern eire city of Londonderry (look on a map,that's its call) as disguise,opened fire on British paratroopers from close by rooftops. The paratroopers then recklessly fired into the demonstrators,killing 14 human beings. undergo in innovations Wikipedia is an American internet site, and Irish individuals funded IRA terrorism for some years - it relatively is an unreliable source on the better of cases, and much greater so on the subject of this incident. U2 and intensely its frontman Bono, are a particularly politicized band that have specific perspectives on political themes that they often use as fabric for his or her songs.

Answer 7

It was not based on Pearl Harbor. In 1972, 26 civil rights protesters were shot in Northern Ireland.

Answer 8

Mike song OK - Bono = Certified charity nut. He gushes over the Oaf Frau of the Wind Frey like The Tom on a couch jumpin freak out. (In other words - he makes a fool of himself in the US mate.)

Answer 9

It seems to refer to events occurred in the Irish history one in the 1920s and the other in the 1970s, check the link for the whole information, good luck.

Answer 10

I think it's about Pearl Harbor. It happened on a Sunday morning, and it was bloody!