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#OTD in 1972 – In what is to become known as Bloody Sunday, the British Army kills 13 civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside district of Derry. A 14th marcher later dies of his injuries.
Thirteen people were shot and killed when British paratroopers opened fire on a crowd of civilians in Derry. Fourteen others were wounded, one later died. The marchers had been campaigning for equal rights such as one man, one vote.
Despite initial attempts by British authorities to justify the shootings including a rushed report by Lord Widgery exonerating the troops, the Saville Report which…
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#Bloody Sunday#Bogside Massacre#Creggan shops#Derry#Dublin#England#Ex-paratroopers#History of Ireland#Irish History#London#March#Northern Ireland#Paratroopers#Saville Report#TD Clare Daly
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Saoradh, movimento rivoluzione ritenuto ala politica della New Ira, è stato fortemente criticata per aver partecipato in massa alla 48ma commemorazione della Bloody Sunday. In strada a marciare un migliaio di persone
Più di 1.000 persone si sono radunate per ricordare i 14 morti del 30 gennaio 1972, quando i membri del reggimento paracadutisti del British Army aprirono il fuoco su innocenti che sfilavano per i diritti civili nel Bogside, a Derry.
La marcia di quest’oggi è partita, come sempre, dai Creggan Shops per snodarsi lungo il percorso originale di 48 anni fa.
https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1/status/1223989804305657856?s=20
Come già annunciato nei giorni scorsi, Saoradh ha partecipato in massa senza però causare alcun disordine.
Gli attivisti del movimento rivoluzionario repubblicano e i loro sostenitori hanno approfittato dell’evento per presentare la nuova Tommy Roberts/Stevie Mellon Republican Memorial Flute Band.
https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1/status/1223995404292886530?s=20
Il DUP aveva reagito con indignazione alla notizia della loro partecipazione, facendo leva sull’uccisione della giornalista Lyra McKee durante in riot avvenuto a Creggan, meno di un anno fa.
Gli organizzatori della Bloody Sunday March for Justice, nella persona di Kate Nash (sorella di William Nash, una delle vittime), avevano sottolineato come negli anni l’evento sia sempre stato aperto a tutti.
https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1/status/1224002884443963392?s=20
“Stiamo marciando da molto tempo”, ha affermato. “È importante andare avanti per le persone che sono morte quel giorno e per quelle che sono state ferite. Lo meritano. Sono stati assassinati”, ha dichiarato oggi Kate Nash.
“Non rinuncerò mai alla lotta per la giustizia. Non potevo deludere mio fratello in quel modo. Non può essere qui a combattere per se stesso. Ma io ci sono e continuerò a farlo.”
L’orazione principale è stata affidata a Stephen Travers, sopravvissuto al massacro di Miami Showband.
https://twitter.com/saoirse161616/status/1224045003489628160?s=20
“Sono completamente e totalmente contro la violenza”, ha esclamato davanti alla folla. “Chiunque pensi che la violenza risolverà qualsiasi problema, o come tale percepito, non accetterà di buon grado queste mie parole”.
“La violenza rimanderà l’unificazione d’Irlanda di altri 50 anni. Potrebbe essere una verità scomoda per alcuni, ma è pur sempre la verità”.
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48° BLOODY SUNDAY MARCH IN IMMAGINI
(da Belfast Telegraph e Twitter)
Saoradh as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Brian Shivers as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Brian Shivers as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Eamonn McCann as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Kate Nash as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Members of Saoradh as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Members of Saoradh as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Members of Saoradh as a remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A remembrance march for the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in the Creggan area Derry on February 2nd 2020 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
BLOODY SUNDAY 2020. MASSICCIA LA PRESENZA DI SAORADH Saoradh, movimento rivoluzione ritenuto ala politica della New Ira, è stato fortemente criticata per aver partecipato in massa alla 48ma commemorazione della Bloody Sunday.
#belfast telegraph#bloody sunday#bloody sunday march#Bloody sunday march for justice#british army#Creggan#creggan shops#dissidenti repubblicani#irlanda del nord#Lyra Mckee#new IRA#northern ireland#Parachute Regiment#reggimento paracadutisti del british army#Saoradh#Troubles#vittime della Bloody Sunday
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The SHIFTERS
"The Shifters"
(LP. Future Folklore rcds. 2018 / rec. 2015) [AU]
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tbf i thought they lived around the bogside, bc dennis’ shop is there, either that or creggan
I really don’t know Derry, so I honestly have no idea lol
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Thoughts on the border by Phil Mac Giolla Bháin
I was introduced to the realities of the Border when the “cattle boat” which had sailed from the Broomielaw in Glasgow to North Wall in Dublin was taken off line.
Then the ten year old me learned about places like Stranraer and Larne.
In order to get to Dublin to take the train to my father’s town of Westport we had to cross the Border.
The last time I recall that militarised demarcation line entering my consciousness was in the summer of 1994.
We crossed the Border from Fermanagh into Leitrim and a very large member of An Garda Síochána looked at my green passport.
When he saw my name as Gaeilge it prompted a question in the first language of the state:
"Cá bhfuil sibh ag dul?” he asked me.
“Táimid ag dul go Contae Mhaigh Eo.”
We were indeed going to my father’s county in the Wesht for a family holiday.
Such a linguistic interaction on the other side of the line would have been dangerously out of place, especially with the locally recruited security forces.
As we drove towards the West we all felt a relief to be in our own place and not in the Six Counties.
While we were in Mayo Ireland beat Italy at soccer in New York and a British death squad did their stuff at Loughinisland.
Two years later we had settled back home in Ireland.
For herself and me, both with an Irish born parent and Irish grandparents on the other side of the house this little island was always home.
We’ve reared our brood here in this the quintessential Border county of Donegal.
Much has changed here since the days of Brits and checkpoints.
These days I think nothing of driving to Derry for NUJ meetings or to pillage the local shopping centres as post-Brexit Sterling tumbles against the Euro.
Over that twenty one years the Partition line has slowly dissolved and the European Union has played a positive role in minimising that geo-political disfigurement on this island.
However, now we could be faced with some of it coming back again.
In February 2016 before the Brexit vote I wrote a piece for the Scottish politics Blog Bella Caledonia.
It might warrant another read now.
A lot of my fears expressed in that piece appear worryingly prescient.
The Irish story over the centuries has been about events in Europe and Britain having unforeseen yet profoundly long lasting consequences here in Ireland, e.g. the Reformation, counter-reformation, French revolution and the First World War.
They all had a uniquely Irish impact on people here.
Now the UK has decided to do walking away from the European Union.
My green passport is no more, it was a beautiful document with a gold inlaid Harp.
Although my merlot coloured travel document today isn’t nearly as aesthetically pleasing I view the EU livery is an emblem of peaceful cooperation for a continent disfigured by centuries of war.
The Peace Process on this island probably couldn’t have occurred without the Maastricht Treaty.
In creating a more harmonised union across the continent of Europe the stage was set for two member states of the EU, assisted by the Clinton Administration, to explore a dénouement to the war situation on this island.
Back then I was privy to the thinking of some senior Republicans as they entered the talks that would produce the Good Friday Agreement.
They were calculating, prescient men.
Some of them had spent a large chunk of their youth in British prisons.
This had given them with the ability to sketch out a long game, but at no point did I hear anyone gaming out Britain leaving the European Union!
However, we are nearly at that juncture.
I have, in recent weeks, spoken to some old comrades from that time.
We shared a joke about how events can blindside all of us.
Some things, though, do not change.
The modern Irish revolutionary tradition, which emerged in the 19th century was based on the following rationale:
England will only attend to Ireland when the Irish become a problem for them.
When the people of Ireland were docile then they could literally starve to death and it didn’t really register with the Westminster tribe.
Now the Bullingdon boys are startled that the Micks could actually create a roadblock to Brexit on the Lifford to Stabane road.
The Backstop…
We now have the situation where even a Taoiseach who last year wore a local variant of the Poppy in Dáil Éireann cannot agree with the Grand Old Dame Britannia on what to do with her Irish frontier.
The son of an Indian immigrant and educated at an exclusive private school that has a Church of Ireland ethos, Varadkar isn’t exactly a Provo from central casting.
Indeed he might be the most pro-British Taoiseach in the history of the State.
When such a person can cause Border problems for the ruling elite on the Thames then we are truly in uncharted waters.
I think the fact that Leo Varadkar’s Chief Whip during that phase of the negotiations was Donegal TD Joe McHugh might be one of those small details that can ultimately have significant implications.
I’ve known Joe since he was an unfancied candidate for the County Council here.
His political career has spanned the Good Friday Agreement and he has been involved in several EU funded cross Border initiatives.
During the Phase One part of the Withdrawal Agreement talks there appeared to be a binary choice between a hard border or Northern Ireland remaining within the Single Market and the Customs Union.
Quite simply there would need to be a trade border either at Lifford or Larne.
Of course, the former subverts the Belfast Agreement and the latter compromises the integrity of the United Kingdom.
However, because the British government was dependent on the DUP to support her minority administration Theresa May said that a trade barrier between the Six Counties and Britain was a non-starter.
Therefore, the British negotiating team introduced the Backstop.
Consequently, the whole of the UK would need to effectively remain within the economic structures of the EU in order to satisfy Arlene that the “Precious Union” would not be compromised at Larne.
That little Ireland can cause a hold up in the Brexit talks should put to bed the “too wee” arguments in Scotland.
This current Border impasse demonstrates that a small EU state like the Republic of Ireland has a voice at Brussels and that it is one that is being heard.
If Brexit is a fascinating parlour game for the chattering classes here on the debatable land in the North West of Ireland it is prosaically real.
The European Union played a key role in bringing the Northern conflict to a close.
Brexit has the capacity to subvert the slow progress we have made in the last two decades.
The recent murder in Creggan of my colleague and friend Lyra McKee shows what is at stake.
None of this registers with the Westminster tribe as they play out a rivalry that has existed since the day that matron favoured one of them over the other at Eton.
That place remains the never failing source of all our political evils.
The people of this island deserve better.
Phil Mac Giolla Bháin is an author, blogger, journalist, novelist and playwright.
He is based in County Donegal, Ireland.
He is an active member of the National Union of Journalists and the chairman of the Irish Writers Union.
An established print journalist for many years Phil has also built up a considerable online readership through his blog www.philmacgiollabhain.ie .
His journalism over the past decade has focussed on highlighting the incidence of anti-Irish racism in Scotland.
He was a staff reporter on An Phoblacht for many years.
His debut novel “The Squad” was published by Books Noir in 2018.
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Willie Doherty-Remains (Kneecapping Behind Creggan Shops) 2013 Colour photographsc-type photograph120 × 160 cm
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Futures & Pasts | MRR #421
As seen in Maximum Rocknroll #421 (June 2018): coming full circle from my very first column which also featured Melbourne’s foremost Fall freaks the Shifters, plus some crucial ‘80s post-punk reissues via Louisville + New Zealand & the new Northwest DIY crash-pop cassette wave.
I wrote about the debut cassette from Melbourne’s the SHIFTERS in the very first column that I did for MRR three years ago, which gives me all sorts of complicated and confusing feelings about the passage of time. And as evidence that sometimes it takes awhile for historical wrongs to be righted, that criminally limited tape is now finally available in its entirety as an LP on the new French label Future Folklore, following the two songs that resurfaced on the Creggan Shops 7” courtesy of It Takes Two back in 2016. The SHIFTERS’ stark, repetitive minimalism and shambolic charms always owed more than a little bit to the FALL in their early years, and revisiting the material from the cassette now just a few months after Mark E. Smith’s passing only reinforces the psychic connection between the lackadaisical post-punk twang in “Captain Hindsight” and the cracked melodies of something like the FALL’s “Your Heart Out” from the Dragnet era. “Creggan Shops” is as close to a contemporary successor to those brilliant first two MEKONS singles as I’ve come across, from the tense interplay between the melodica and a creaky violin, to the scritch-scratch guitar, to the nonchalantly harmonized dual vocals, all sounding like they’re perpetually on the verge of coming undone. There’s way more at play here than blatant UK DIY worship, though—it’s not a huge jump from the homespun, pastoral pop of ‘80s Australian DIY legends like the PARTICLES and the CANNANES to the SHIFTERS’ raggedly melodic “Colour Me In,” and “The American Attitude to the Law” sprawls into a lengthy VELVET UNDERGROUND-addled haze, if only LOU REED had written songs referencing “drinking cough syrup to fall asleep” instead of heroin. One of the best releases of 2015 when it first came out on cassette, and this vinyl version is definitely going to be tough to top in 2018. (Future Folklore, futurefolklorerecords.bandcamp.com)
YOUR FOOD were an early ‘80s quartet from Louisville, Kentucky whose off-kilter, stripped-down art-punk mirrored the similarly self-styled approach of other DIY groups from that era who existed outside of major cities. Their only proper recorded output, 1983’s self-released Poke It With A Stick LP, was just reissued by Drag City at the behest of fellow Louisvillian David Grubbs (formerly of SQUIRREL BAIT and BASTRO, among others), and it’s pretty essential stuff for anyone interested in the chapter of American weirdo post-punk that took shape just before “college rock” became the dominant underground cultural force in the mid-to-late ‘80s. “Leave” and “New Pop” both layer simple, endlessly repeated basslines, obliquely narrated vocals, and trebly stabs of guitar into spartan drones that share the jaggedly danceable sensibility of what was happening a couple of hours to the south in Athens, Georgia with bands like the METHOD ACTORS or PYLON, even though YOUR FOOD were way more likely to switch up to a frantic, thrashy punk fit at a moment’s notice (see the last thirty or so seconds of the otherwise choppy and COME ON-esque “Cool/Cowtown”). There’s a sharp-cornered, chaotic shamble to “Here” that isn’t too far removed from RED KRAYOLA’s late ‘70s post-punk incarnation, and there’s even some touches of UK DIY-style naive jangle in “Corners” before it collapses into noisy abstract guitar squall mid-song. Totally freewheeling and ramshackle bent-punk bliss! I’ve seen a few references to the fact that MRR “refused” to review the LP when it originally came out, so hopefully I’m doing some small justice to Poke It With A Stick here 35 years later. (Drag City, dragcity.com)
I’m most certainly a card-carrying member of the Flying Nun fan club, but I’m also always really happy to see some renewed attention being given to some of the darker and more obscure corners of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s New Zealand underground, beyond the Flying Nun roster and the bands typically associated with the whole storied Dunedin sound. NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS have often (and rather unfairly) been termed the Kiwi JOY DIVISION thanks to the combination of some deeply propulsive basslines and Peter Jefferies’ dramatically icy baritone vocals, but you could just as easily connect the dots between their take on bleak and razor-edged post-punk and what dozens of other UK-based bands like the SOUND or the CHAMELEONS were doing more or less concurrently. The two 12” EPs and one single that they released before splitting up in 1983 have been impossibly difficult to track down for quite a while (at non-collector scum prices, at least), and the consolation prize has been a selection of songs from those releases that made it onto a 1995 CD-only collection called Nerve Ends in Power Lines, plus a handful of roughly recorded 1981 demos that were excavated for 1998’s Worldview 7”. After all of the recent vinyl reissue campaigns focused on long out-of-print records by some of the most beloved New Zealand groups (who generally happened to be backed by Flying Nun in their day), NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS have been long overdue for a similarly comprehensive treatment, so endless appreciation is due to Dais Records for stepping up to remedy that situation with the new Complete Studio Recordings anthology, collecting every song from the three original releases on one remastered LP. Even at their darkest and most desperate, like on the sinister, industrial-decay clang of “Another Year,” NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS never slipped into the sort of over-the-top goth pretensions that were de rigueur in the age of 4AD’s ascendency, and vocal delivery aside, the slashing and anthemic “In Purgatory” honestly has more in common with MISSION OF BURMA or HÜSKER DÜ than, say, BAUHAUS. Highest possible recommendation, and an excellent counterpart to Superior Viaduct’s recent reissues of Peter and Graeme Jefferies’ more avant-garde/experimental post-NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS project THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT. (Dais Records, nocturnalprojections.bandcamp.com)
TRASH ROMEO are a very new duo from here in Portland featuring two people who have been in most of my favorite local bands over the last couple of years, including GOLDEN HOUR, the BEDROOMS, and CONDITIONER. Everything about their debut cassette Moving in the Summer brings to mind the pre-internet, early-to-mid ‘90s romance of mail-ordering singles from paper catalogs and building up imagined realities of geographically-centered scenes that you’d only ever read about. Alex and Danny both rotate between guitar, drums, and vocals, crafting sparse crash-pop with a hint of basement punk snarl that picks up a few loose threads from the parallel riot grrrl-adjacent musical universes of Olympia and Washington D.C. The haunting opener “Cheryl Blossom” juxtaposes delicate-yet-tangled melodies with some darkly angular AUTOCLAVE/SLANT 6 flashes, and sugary sweet TIGER TRAP-style harmonies are at the center of “Night Terror,” while “Teen Vogue” recalls the raw, minimalist lo-fi punk of EXCUSE 17 or even KICKING GIANT at their most raucous. Simple, direct, and deeply personal anthems for loners and outcasts everywhere. TRASH ROMEO definitely make me feel a major nostalgia for some of the formative reference points in my young teenage musical upbringing in the 1990s, but it never seems like they’re simply reproducing specific cultural signifiers from the past in a modern context—in 2018, you could say it’s the difference between posting digital scans of pages from an 1992 issue of Sassy magazine on your blog, or choosing to make your own zine with only a typewriter, a glue stick and a photocopier at your disposal. Also worth mentioning: their first show was their tour kick-off show and they were the only band that played it, which just might be one of the most amazing and punkest moves I’ve encountered in a long time. (trashromeo.bandcamp.com)
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12/11/17.
The Shifters are from Melbourne, Australia and have a couple of 7″s and a tape to their name. Next February/March, French label Future Folklore Records will release their debut LP. I posted about the Market Square Records 7″. There was a definite Bats feel to “A Believer”.
This LP doesn’t have that kind of sound. This is a rock record in the vein of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Boomgates, and The Great Unwashed (listen to all that reverb). Also, listen to “Algeria” and tell me that the rhythm section is moving like a Feelies song.
#The Shifters#Melbourne#Australia#Market Square Records#Future Folklore Records#France#The Bats#Eddy Current Suppression Ring#Boomgates#The Great Unwashed#The Feelies
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Masked man robs <b>garage</b>
The robbery at the Co Tyrone garage comes four weeks after a masked man carried out an armed robbery just seven miles away at Doyle's shop and service station in Creggan. The latest audacious robbery was carried out while football training was taking place under floodlights in the adjacent Plunkett ...
from Google Alert - the garage http://ift.tt/2GeRWJ7
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Commemorative board to be unveiled for INLA volunteer. This weekend sees the 40th anniversary of the death of INLA volunteer Colm McNutt in December 1977.
The Derry republican socialist movement will in conjunction with the James Connolly Culture Youth Group unveil a board to commemorate and remember him on Saturday 9th December at the corner of Balbane Pass/Linsfort Drive. Colm McNutt was 18-years-old when he was shot while trying to hijack a car near Derry city centre. It is believed that supergrass Raymond Gilmour, tipped off his RUC handler…
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#OTD in 1972 – In what is to become known as Bloody Sunday, the British Army kills 13 civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside district of Derry. A 14th marcher later dies of his injuries.
Thirteen people were shot and killed when British paratroopers opened fire on a crowd of civilians in Derry. Fourteen others were wounded, one later died. The marchers had been campaigning for equal rights such as one man, one vote.
Despite initial attempts by British authorities to justify the shootings including a rushed report by Lord Widgery exonerating the troops, the Saville Report which…
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#Bloody Sunday#Bogside Massacre#Creggan shops#Derry#Dublin#England#Ex-paratroopers#History of Ireland#Irish History#London#March#Northern Ireland#Paratroopers#Saville Report#TD Clare Daly
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In migliaia hanno marciato dai Creggan Shops di Derry fino al Free Derry Corner, in occasione del 47° Anniversario della Bloody Sunday del 30 gennaio 1972
Come ogni anno si è tenuta la Bloody Sunday March for Justice, manifestazione culmine di una serie di eventi, in commemorazione del 47° anniversario della strage di civili per mano del Reggimento Paracadutisti del Bristish Army.
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Quattordici furono le vittime.
Nonostante il Rapporto Saville, che nel 2010 stabili che tutte le vittime e i feriti erano innocenti; nonostante le scuse ufficiali da parte del governo britannico, che per bocca dell’allora Primo Ministro David Cameron, dichiarò quanto accaduto “Ingiustificato ed ingiustificabile“; nonostante le indagini aperte dalla PSNI a cui è seguita un’inchiesta del PPS, i familiari sono ancora in attesa che giustizia sia fatta.
Il Rapporto Saville, costato 195 milioni di sterline, la più lunga e costosa inchiesta britannica, dimostrò che:
Nessuna delle vittime aveva rappresentato una minaccia o ha fatto qualcosa che giustificasse la loro uccisione
Nessun avvertimento era stato dato a nessuno dei civili, prima che i soldati aprissero il fuoco
Nessuno dei soldati ha sparato in risposta ad attacchi con molotov o lanci di pietre
Alcuni di quelli uccisi o feriti stavano chiaramente fuggendo o andando ad aiutare persono già ferite o morenti
Molti dei soldati hanno mentito sulle loro azioni
La marcia di ieri, 30 gennaio, ha contato migliaia di presenze, che hanno seguito il percorso originario della marcia per i diritti civili del 30 gennaio 1972, per poi terminare al Free Derry Corner, con il consueto discorso a conclusione della manifestazione.
Il discorso di Bernadette Devlin, dal palco presso il Free Derry Corner, a conclusione della marcia. Si ringrazia Riccardo Michelucci
Come ogni anno, la Bloody Sunday March for Justice è occasione per ricordare anche altri casi tutt’ora irrisolti, tra cui il Massacro di Ballymurphy e il più recente caso di ‘errore giudiziario’, quello dei Craigavon 2.
Kate Nash al centro, baluardo della campagna per la giustizia sulla Bloody Sunday
Kate Nash, sorella di William ucciso a colpi d’arma da fuoco in Rossville Street il 30 gennaio 1972, ha dichiarato a UTV News: “Facciamo in modo che le cose inizino e procedano, abbiamo aspettato 47 anni, quindi sarebbe bello mettere finalmente la parola fine”.
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A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
A Bloody Sunday commemoration march takes place in the Creggan area of Derry on January 27th 2019 (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)
Members of the Bloody Sunday families who laid wreaths on Sunday morning marking the events of 47 years ago in 1972. PIcture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The Reverend David Latimer from 1st Derry Presbyterian Church who took part in the Bloody Sunday service in Derry on Sunday. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
Wreaths which were laid at the Bloody Sunday Memorial in Derry on Sunday. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
Members of the Bloody Sunday families who came together on Sunday morning to lay wreaths in memory of their loved ones who died 47 years ago in Derry. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The Mayor Councillor John Boyle lays a wreath at the Bloody Sunday Memorial on Sunday. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
Members of the Bloody Sunday families who laid wreaths on Sunday morning marking the events of 47 years ago in 1972. PIcture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
Members of the Bloody Sunday families who laid wreaths on Sunday morning marking the events of 47 years ago in 1972. PIcture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The annual Bloody Sunday March makes its way through the Brandywell in Derry, 47 years after the original march. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The annual Bloody Sunday March makes its way through the Brandywell in Derry, 47 years after the original march. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The annual Bloody Sunday March makes its way through the Brandywell in Derry, 47 years after the original march. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The annual Bloody Sunday March makes its way through the Brandywell in Derry, 47 years after the original march. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
The annual Bloody Sunday March makes its way through the Brandywell in Derry, 47 years after the original march. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 27.01.19
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DERRY RICORDA LE VITTIME DELLA BLOODY SUNDAY, IN MIGLIAIA IN MARCIA PER LA GIUSTIZIA In migliaia hanno marciato dai Creggan Shops di Derry fino al Free Derry Corner, in occasione del 47° Anniversario della Bloody Sunday del 30 gennaio 1972…
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NEW RADIO 1/1/2017
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Playlist below:
Meat Parade by The Happiness Boys
Baba Giraudy by Blues Control
Sonnier (Walk in the Light) by Beatrice Dillon
Sleight of Mind by Cindytalk
Electromagnetic Chauvinism by HOGG
Ahoe-Ahoea by Ahoe-Ahoea
Small World Experience by Small World Experience
Tall Buildings by Trans FX
Sarra by Gary Davenport
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Slight Freedom by Jeff Parker
Dawn of the Double, Pt. 1 by The Double
This is Familiar by Sarah Mary Chadwick
Time Feel by Georgia
Keep On Chooglin' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Girls Next Door by MAMA
Brain Kill by Oh Boland
Want to Grow Up by Mordecai
Uncoffined by Terminals
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Maximum Bum Ride by The Summer Hits
Snake Pit by Harvey Mandel
Seasons on Fire by Matt Berry
The Bugmen by Tommy Jay
Can't Stand the Midwest by Dow Jones and the Industrials
That Clown's Got a Gun by Uranium Club
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Mutiny by CC Dust
Don't Say Slow by Skywave
Home is the Range by Comsat Angels
Living by Theo Scherman
Dance of the Obscure by Kabanjak
Machine Men by Ganser
My Sentiments by Vital Idles
Creggan Shops by The Shifters
Counting by Heart Beach
Shattered by Nervous Trend
Baseball Cards by The Karl Hendricks Trio
The Shot by Steve Moore
Marnie/Rabbits by Coordinated Suicides
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1. Ben Bertrand - Vanatoarea De Pasari (Rough Mix) (CS “Fit For Queens” by Various Artists on Knotwilg Records, 2020)
2. Stefan Christensen & Friends - Displacement (LP “Unknown Fortunes” on C/Site Recordings, 2019)
3. Vital Idles - Solid States (LP “Left Hand” on Upset The Rhythm Records, 2018)
4. The Shifters - Creggan Shops (LP “The Shifters” on Future Folklore Records, 2018)
5. Constant Mongrel - Experts In Skin (7” on Upset The Rhythm Records, 2019)
6. Neutrals: Hate The Summer Of Love (LP “Kebab Disco” on Emotional Response Records, 2019)
7. The Suburban Homes - Unemployed (7” on Total Punk, 2017)
8. Malaria! - Kaltes Klares Wasser (2xLP “Malaria! - Compiled 2.0 / 1981-84 • Full Emotion, on Moabit Music, 2019)
9. Fåglar i Bur - Platt (7” on I Dischi Del Barone, 2018)
10. The Cure - Splintered In Her Head (7” “Charlotte Sometimes” on Fiction Records, 1981)
11. The Garbage & The Flowers - Love Comes Slowly Now (LP “Eyes Rind As If Beggars” on The Now Sound, 1997)
12. Neutral - Brott (EP “När” on Omlott, 2017)
13. Thistle Group - Always The First To Sleep (7” on Soft Abuse, 2017)
14. Ignatz - My Children (LP “The Drain” on Kraak, 2016)
15. Aaron Dilloway: Ghost (LP “The Gag File” on DAIS Records, 2017)
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April 10th - Ireland Tour Day Two: Giant's Causeway and Derry.
Before hopping on the bus to head to our next location, many of us opted to wake up early and hike to the Carrick-a-Rede Rope bridge. We revisited our steps from the previous night but continued further along the hilly oceanside until we reached this bridge. The Carrick-a-Rede Rope bridge was first erected by salmon fisherman in 1755 (350 years ago!!) to connect the mainland and Carrick-a-Rede island. It’s 30m above sea level and opens to stunning views on the other side (supposedly). Unfortunately since we came so early it wasn’t open to tourists yet, but from what I could tell, it wouldn’t have been worth paying several euros to cross anyways.
Checking out the Rope Bridge.
Can’t resist more sheep photos. Especially with lambs.
After heading back to the hostel to grab our things and check out we were en-route to Giants Causeway, arguably one of Ireland’s most famous tourist attractions. If I were to do this again, I would highly recommend getting there for opening. By the time we arrived it was packed full of tourists, so it was a bit challenging to truly appreciate the scenery and get high quality photos. I also wouldn’t recommend the audio tour unless you’re there on an unusually not windy day - you can’t hear anything in your headphones while walking down. It is also a lot colder down by the water than you’d think, so make sure to dress warmly - which I did not. I ended up buying a cute knit toque from the gift shop. Giants Causeway is named for a legend, which I’ll summarize:
Fionn McCool, Ireland’s most famous giant, is having some trouble with Scottish giant, Benandonner, who is threatening Ireland. Fionn, enraged by this throws chunks of the coast into the sea, which form a path for him to follow and fight with Benandonner. But because the Scottish giant is so big, Fionn quickly turns around being chased by him,only to be saved by his wife who disguised him as a baby. Benandonner sees this HUGE baby and decides that if that baby is that big, the father must be massive and retreats.
The more scientific explanation for Giant’s Causeway is the aftermath of a volcanic burning and cooling.
Giants Causeway and LOTS of tourists.
Yay! Looks like I’m alone.
Once finished at Giants Causeway we stopped at Dunluce Castle, another Game of Thrones film location. I LOVE visiting castles of any size, age, or history, so this was a fun quick stop.
Dunluce Castle.
Me in front of Dunluce Castle feat. the new hat haha.
Our final destination for the day was Derry, or Londonderry as it’s fully known. I didn’t know a whole lot about Derry going in, but it ended up being one of my favourite stops of the tour. We had an incredible tour with Garvin - if you do a walking tour, make sure to go with him. (He also seems to be a bit of a celebrity around Derry, as he ran into many acquaintances throughout our tour.) So if you’re unfamiliar, one of the most famous events of the Troubles - Bloody Sunday (as immortalized in the U2 song of the same name) - occurred in Derry. Bloody Sunday. From the BBC History website:
About ten thousand people gathered in the Creggan area of Derry on the morning of Sunday 30 January 1972. After prolonged skirmishes between groups of local youths and the army at barricades set up to prevent the Civil Rights march reaching its intended destination (Guildhall Square in the heart of the city), paratroopers moved in to make arrests. During this operation, they opened fire on the crowd, killing thirteen and wounding 13 others.
The dead were all male, aged between seventeen and forty-one. Another man, aged fifty-nine, died some months later from injuries sustained on that day. The wounded included a fifteen-year-old boy and a woman.
...While the British Army maintained that its troops had responded after coming under fire, the people of the Bogside saw it as murder...Headed by Lord Saville, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry took 12 years and finally reported in 2010. It established the innocence of the victims and laid responsibility for what happened on the army.Prime Minister David Cameron called the killings "unjustified and unjustifiable". The families of the victims of Bloody Sunday felt that the inquiry's findings vindicated those who were killed, raising the question of prosecutions and compensation.
As Garvin explained to us the history of Bloody Sunday we were shocked to find out that he knew someone killed during the horrific event. Hearing that from a man around the same age as my dad really rung home that the Troubles are hardly behind in Ireland. Despite the sad tales throughout our tour, we also enjoyed lot of humour and anecdotes from Garvin, and experienced more ancient history of Derry, including that it’s the only completely walled city left in Ireland, and one of the best examples of a walled city in Europe.
Some of the many murals in Derry.
You are now entering Free Derry.
One of Derry’s most famous female politicians.
Derry’s skyline.
Part of the wall surrounding the old part of the city.
Our crew with Garvin in the front. (Excuse my terrible bangs...)
We returned to our accommodation for the evening at the Travelodge, which is a great option if you’re on a budget. Definitely a step up from a hostel, but certainly not anything fancy. We went for dinner as a group to Bentley Bar. I don’t recall what I had, but if I’m being honest, most of my meals in Ireland were pretty unmemorable as vegetarianism doesn’t seem to be quite as popular there. After dinner, watching a local band play some covers, and few cheap cocktails on special, we headed to (what we thought was) a pub called Annie Grannies. Annie Grannies was bumpin’, given that it was a Sunday night! But apparently that’s when a lot of the Irish like to party. We took in some more live music and (several) more drinks before finding out that the upstairs of Annie Grannies was actually a nightclub, so a few of us headed up there for a bit of dancing before heading back to the hotel for the evening.
Tamika and I in our room before dinner.
1/3 of us at dinner.
Another bunch of us at the first pub.
I think this was on the way home? Signs of a good night!
To see the rest of my photos from Ireland, click on any of the above images, or view the whole album here.
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