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Lingua e Cultura

The Northern Irish Question in the early 1970s

Adriana Stanzione

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The Northern Irish Question in the early

1970sSong:

Sunday Bloody Sundayby U2

Movie:Bloody Sunday

by Paul Greengrass

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U2 biography

synopsis

through

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5ªCour monthly programme

what happened

in Londonderry

on 30 January 1972

and why

Internet and computer will be our assistants

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SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

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SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

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I can't believe the news today.I can't close my eyes and make it go away.How long, how long must we sing this song?How long? How long?'Cos tonight we can be as one, tonight.Broken bottles under children's feet.Bodies strewn across the dead end streets.But I won't heed the battle call.It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall.Sunday, bloody Sunday.Sunday, bloody Sunday.

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

And the battle's just begun.There's too many lost, but tell me who has won?The trenches dug within our hearts,And mothers, children, brothers sisters torn apart.Sunday, bloody Sunday.Sunday, bloody Sunday.How long, how long must we sing this song?How long? How long?'Cos tonight we can be as one.Tonight, tonight.Sunday, bloody Sunday.Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Wipe the tears from your eyes.Wipe your tears away.Wipe your bloodshot eyes.Sunday, bloody Sunday.Sunday, bloody Sunday.

And it's true we are immune.When fact is fiction and TV reality.And today the millions cry.We eat and drink while tomorrow they dieThe real battle, it's just begun,To claim the victory Jesus wonOn a Sunday, bloody Sunday.Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Words & music by U2

Northern Ireland

Londonderry

Londonderry 1972, 30 January

An anti-internment march makes its way down William Street on 30 January 1972

Members of the First Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, positioned in the William Street / Little James Street area

plan of area

Patrick Doherty, a thirty-one-year-old father of six, shot dead outside the high flats in Rossville Street

plan of area

Jackie Duddy, one of seven teenagers killed on Bloody Sunday, tended by Father Edward Daly and a member of the Knights of Malta first aid group

St. Mary's Church, Creggan, 2 February 1972. Thirteen coffins line the altar three days after Bloody Sunday

Major General Ford Tim Pigott-SmithMaclellan Nicholas FarrellLagan Gerard McSorleyIvan Cooper James NesbittTitle: Bloody Sunday

Direction: Paul Greengrass Film-script: Paul Greengrass Photography: Ivan Strasburg Music: Dominic Muldoon Editing: Clare Douglas

Year: 2002Country: Great Britain

synopsisIvan Cooper (James Nesbitt) attempts to organize a peaceful protest after Protestant leaders imprison Catholics without a trial. His actions conflict with hard-line IRA members who have no interest in a "peaceful" response, as well as the military men responsible for keeping the peace who are led by Major General Robert Ford (Tim Pigott-Smith) and Brigadier Patrick Maclellan (Nicholas Farrell). By the end of the day, the military will fire on the protestors and kill 13 people.

Movie trailer from Bloody Sunday (2002) by Paul Greengrass

from Live at Red Rocks, Colorado 1983

Larry Mullen Jr.,

drums

Bono, lead singer and songwriter

The band consists of

The Edge, lead guitar,

keyboards, vocals

Adam Clayton,

bass guitar

The band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1976

U2 story

U2 has been perhaps the biggest music act in the world since the late

1980s to the current day

The IRA sent a threat to U2 that if they continued their campaign they would be kidnapped. The band continued anyway

The band's popular 1983 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" commemorated the slaughter of innocent civilians during the Irish troubles

It called for a renunciation of violence

Throughout the 1980s the band used this song to campaign against the Irish Republican Army's (IRA) efforts to raise money to fuel continued armed conflict

U2 continues their work for charity and social action:

they promoted the Northern Ireland Peace Accordsthey played in devastated Sarajevo following the war therethey helped bolster the shaky economy of New York City by playing there following the September 11 terrorist attacks

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday was the culmination of several years heightened tensions

In the ‘50s and ‘60s the Catholics suffered social deprivation, with large unemployment and lack

of political representationThey didn’t have the same rights as the

Protestants

The IRA emerged from the civil unrest and started a campaign against the British Army

and government

Loyalists also organised paramilitary groups and declared war on the IRA

The situation began chaotic. The Prime Minister decided to send British troops in an effort to

maintain peaceThe Civil Rights Association, a Catholic

movement to attempt to combat discrimination by the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland,

against the Catholics, organised a march

Some members of the crowd threw stones at the army which escalated, according to some

sources, into a more serious disturbance

13 of these people died on the day, one other perished later from his wounds

The armed forces opened fire. They hit 26 people

March began peacefully but tension rose as the marchers were prevented from going further by

an army blockade

Why the armed forces opened fire is the subject of much debate

Many of the protestors and independent eyewitnesses suggest that the armed forces

opened fire without any provocationAn alternative explanation is that they

panicked. The paratroops regiment thought they were under attack from the IRA

practice

listening

reading

writing

speaking

multi-medial tools

final report

practice

listening

reading

writing

multi-medial tools

speaking

final report

the right order of the lines is:

I can’t believe the news today.I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.How long, how long must we sing this song?How long? How long?‘Cos tonight we can be as one, tonight.Broken bottles under children’s feet.Bodies strewn across the dead end streets.But I won’t need the battle call.It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall.

the right sentences are:

There's too many____, but tell me who ___ won?The trenches dug within our _____,And mothers, children, brothers sisters ______ ________.

And it's true we are _______ .When fact is _____ and TV _______ .And today the _______ cry.We eat and drink ______ tomorrow ____ dieThe real ______ , it's just ______,To ______ the ________ Jesus ____

lost

has

hearts

torn apart

immune

reality

millions

they

listening activities

Do you know this song?

while listening to the song:

before listening to the song:

What do you know about U2?

Put the following lines in order

How long? How long?It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall.Bodies strewn across the dead end streets.I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.But I won’t need the battle call.How long, how long must we sing this song?Broken bottles under children’s feet.I can’t believe the news today.‘Cos tonight we can be as one, tonight.

Check yourself

It is part of the soundtrack of a film, what is its name? Who plays in that film?

Complete the gaps as you listen to the song

And it's true we are _______ .When fact is _____ and TV _______ .And today the _______ cry.We eat and drink ______ tomorrow ____ dieThe real ______ , it's just ______,To ______ the ________ Jesus ____

There's too many____, but tell me who ___ won?The trenches dug within our _____,And mothers, children, brothers sisters ______ ________.

Check yourself

after listening

All students sing aloud together The students prepare a karaoke

Some students, in pair or in group of three, research on Internet about U2 story

Other students research photographs of political murals concerning the Northern Irish Question

reading and writing activities

Some other students create a short summary answering to a questionnaire on Irish Question (look at it)

questionnaire

What happened in Ireland in 1922?Who lived in the north?What happened during the 50s and 60s?What is the IRA?What did they do?How did the Loyalist react?What did the Prime Minister do?What happened in 1972?How many people have been killed in 30 years?How is the situation in Northern Ireland actually?Why U2 is so close at this argument?

speaking activities

Some students memorize the song, and after that they perform it as a poem

Other students are divided in three groups. The first group imagines to create an ideal interview with a Loyalist and with a Catholic; the second one organizes their answers as a Protestant and the third one organizes their answers as a Catholic. Then the students play the different parts.

multi-medial tools

Students, in small groups, do interactive exercises on computer in school lab: true/false (see the example), jeopardy (see the example), multiple choice (see the example), etc.

True or False

1. In 1800 Ireland was part of the UK. 2. Catholic wanted to be part of the UK.3. The majority of the people in Ulster are

Protestant.4. In 1922 there was the formation of the

Irish free state.5. IRA means Irish Rebel Army.6. In 1972 British soldiers killed 23

civilians.7. 30 January 1972 is called “Sunday

Bloody Sunday”.8. Loyalists were against IRA.9. Ira was against Irish government.10.After the Good Friday agreement

there is peace in Ulster.

true false

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

U2“Bloody Sunday”

UlsterBloody Sunday

by P. Greengrass

Is this song part of U2’s 1th album, WAR?

Bono’s nickname is for

On 30 January 1972 Loyalists shot at 13 people in Derry

Ulster has been an independent Republic since 1922

On 2002 Bloody Sunday by P.Greengrass won

“The Golden Lion” in Venice

multiple choice

How long, how long must we sing this song?"

What’s the meaning of “U2”?

It’s a famous verse from Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar by W. Shakespeare. It’s a well-known superstitious sentence The Edge repeats at the end of every concerts of them.

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It’s a very meaningful verse from Psalm 40 by Prophet David in Bible.

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1. It’s the name of a famous German submarine well-known as U-Boot.

2. It’s “you too”, the same sound of U2.

3. It’s the name of the travel agency opposite the garage where they played at the end 1970s .

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final report

At the end of this module the students will produce a hypertext about all these topics. It will be shown to the other

forms and to their parents at the end of the school year.