Sunday Bloody Sunday

              

This is a song written in 1983 by Bono ( Paul Hewson) from the rockband called U2. The song refers to two tragic events in Northern Ireland. The first one took place on Sunday 30th, 1972 in Derry.. Some 20,000 civilians were marching in the town because they were protesting against the policy of the English government which had emprisoned suspected IRA sympathisers without trial. While they were demonstrating, the English army fired on the unarmed marchers, killing fourteen people, some shot in their back. In 1981, another tragic event took place in Ulster when IRA members were left to die from their hunger strike..

In this song, U2 denounces the violence of this war.

Alan: "I love the band and the song so, when we sang the song in class, it was the best school lesson of my life. Thank you U2."