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Have you seen the movie Bloody Sunday? Is it any good? And is it historically accurate? I may do a World History Project on it.

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No one has seen this movie?

[url="http://www.paramountclassics.com/bloodysunday/"]http://www.paramountclassics.com/bloodysunday/[/url]

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It seems that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops haven't done a review of that movie yet.

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The Bishop of Derry at the time has reviewed the film - from the official website:

[quote]'As witness to the events of Bloody Sunday on January 30, 1972, I can state that the film BLOODY SUNDAY captured those events with uncanny accuracy. I was deeply moved and emotionally quite distressed by the film. It was too close for comfort.

I hope that it wil permit many people to get a sense of what happened on the day that became a crucial turning point of the Northern Ireland Troubles. It will perhaps offer some explanation for the twenty years of conflict that subsequently followed.'

Bishop Edward Daly
Bishop of Derry (1974 ­ 93)

September 10, 2002 [/quote]

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Yeah, Ellenita, I read just read a firsthand account by Bishop Derry of Bloody Sunday. Such a sad thing.

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I saw it. It's really brutal; lots of kids and old people getting shot. I was told by a professor that it is extremely acurate.

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Sojourner, was it a book, and if so what was the title?

It's so hard to get any true information about it over here.... the cover up has been really extensive for years.

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[quote name='Ellenita' date='May 22 2004, 12:51 PM'] Sojourner, was it a book, and if so what was the title?

It's so hard to get any true information about it over here.... the cover up has been really extensive for years. [/quote]
It was actually an excerpt from a book Bishop Daly wrote, "Mister, Are You a Priest?": [url="http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/daly/daly00.htm"]Here's the link. [/url].

It gives ordering info from the site; I've no idea if the info is still good, but you can give it a shot.

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Thanks for the link Sojourner. The book was only published in 2000 so I bet I can still buy it somewhere.....

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RandomProddy

[quote name='lifeteener' date='May 23 2004, 02:39 AM'] wats bloody sunday? [/quote]
British army paratroopers shot at demonstrators in a city called Londonderry in Northern Ireland, igniting a tension into a conflict that killed 3,000 christians.

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