‘In a ghostly pool of blood / a crumpled phantom hugged the mud’: Spectropoetic Presentations of Bloody Sunday and the Crisis of Northern Ireland

Moi, Ruben

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“…Herron and Lynch (2007: 3) assert that, ‘it is hardly surprising that, in the face of a blatant perversion of the truth-finding function of the law, culture and art have filled the gap with versions of a popular, demotic history of Bloody Sunday’. Or, as Moi (2010: 64) asserts in his study of poetic treatments of Bloody Sunday, ‘the tragedy [and] the official report … instigated counterhegemonic documentation and commemoration by the local community, as well as alternative aesthetic apprehensions by a variety of artists’.…”

Section: Commemorating Bloody Sundaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Renegotiating difficult pasts: Two documentary dramas on Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972

Pötzsch¹

2011

Memory Studies

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Drawing upon theories of social and cultural memory, commemoration, and memory politics, this article explores how two British documentary dramas -Greengrass's Bloody Sunday and McDougall and McGovern's Sunday (both 2002) -re-enact the events of Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972, where British paratroopers shot and killed 13 unarmed demonstrators and wounded another 14. Moving from a textual analytical focus to a historical contextualization and recontextualization of the two films, I argue that Sunday and Bloody Sunday adopt different narrative and temporal frames and, as a consequence, expose competing perspectives on the question of preconditions and responsibilities for the atrocity. In connecting both films to the Saville inquiry's final report published in 2010, I sketch out how they relate to an emerging historical mainstream discourse. I conclude that the differences exhibited bear witness to the impossibility of ultimately arresting constant discursive renegotiations of shared pasts -every (historical) vision seems to imply certain blind spots.It is often asserted that, the establishment of a final and singular truth of what happened on that day [Bloody Sunday] will allow for a process of closure and resolution, and perhaps for those involved such an aspiration is understandable. But there is a danger that what is being pursued is something which will ultimately smooth over the actual and very real inconsistencies, partialities and blank spots of an event such as this. (Herron and Lynch, 2007: 71) To see something is constantly to oversee something else. There is no vision without a blind-spot. (Welsch, 1997: 25)

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Section: Commemorating Bloody Sundaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Renegotiating difficult pasts: Two documentary dramas on Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972

Pötzsch¹

2011

Memory Studies

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Legal Culture on Justice and Truth: The Tribunals of Inquiry about Bloody Sunday

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2020

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Almost 50 years ago, in the events that happened during the so-called Bloody Sunday (Derry 1972, 30th January), 13 Catholic civilians were killed because of the actions of the British army during a civil rights march against internment without trial in Northern Ireland. Other 13 civilians were injured. While the circumstances were unclear, these civilians were considered to be terrorists, which seemed to justify the gunfire. The findings on Bloody Sunday from two Tribunals of Inquiry (1972 and 1998-2010), and the reactions that their resulting reports raised are an excellent example of cultural impregnation in law. In this regard, it is possible to find a general notion of justice as truth. Guaranteeing such notion (or, at least, the willingness to ensure it) seemed to facilitate the peace process in Northern Ireland. Under the light of these events, the following pages aim to analyse how that legal culture of justice as truth is displayed in the two Bloody Sunday Tribunals of Inquiry as well as its contribution to the contestation of the British legal system or its legitimacy. This paper starts by reviewing previous studies about the conceptual framework of the analysis — it examines the concept of “legal culture” and the understanding of justice as truth, as well as the definition of Tribunal of Inquiry. Next, it argues cultural perceptions regarding Bloody Sunday Inquiries. The conclusions exposed reveal that the legal culture of justice as truth is also embodied in legalism and colonialism.

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‘In a ghostly pool of blood / a crumpled phantom hugged the mud’: Spectropoetic Presentations of Bloody Sunday and the Crisis of Northern Ireland

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Renegotiating difficult pasts: Two documentary dramas on Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972

Renegotiating difficult pasts: Two documentary dramas on Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972

Legal Culture on Justice and Truth: The Tribunals of Inquiry about Bloody Sunday

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