After Bloody Sunday investigates the ways in which the events in Derry on January 30, 1972, have found representation in photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art installations, murals, music, commemorative events, legal discourse, eyewitness testimony, and pressure-group campaigns. — Thirty-six years after the killing and w... more »ounding of twenty-six civil rights protestors in Derry, the new independent tribunal chaired by Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate is close to publishing its findings. The Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry promises to be the most comprehensive act of truth-recovery yet attempted in relation to the many atrocities that scarred the North of Ireland during the three decades of political conflict.

Mark Saville has the formidable, and perhaps impossible, task of establishing the definitive truth of Bloody Sunday. His attempt comes in the wake of many other earlier versions of the events of 30th January 1972 that have also claimed to present the truth of what happened that day.

After Bloody Sunday examines the portrayals of the events of January 30th, 1972, and its devastating repercussions in photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art installations, murals, commemorative events, and legal discourse. The authors consider their veracity, their mechanisms of authenticity, and their assumptions that a particular mediumâ€”be it film, or language, or visual artâ€”can somehow articulate the truth of Bloody Sunday.

In the course of six thematically-organized chapters, the authors analyze productions ranging from high-profile popular forms of entertainmentâ€”such as Paul Greengrassâ€™s feature film Bloody Sunday and Jimmy McGovernâ€™s made-for-television film, Sundayâ€”through to lesser-known treatments in poetry (Thomas Kinsellaâ€™s Butcherâ€™s Dozen), drama (Frank McGuinnessâ€™s Carthaginians and Brian Frielâ€™s The Freedom of the City), and visual art (The Bogside Artists and Willie Doherty). They place special emphasis on the commemoration events held each year in Derry in which the families of the victims haveâ€”over many yearsâ€”remembered their dead and injured, while at the same time building a highly-effective campaign that resulted, finally, in a new Inquiry.

Drawing on their expertise in the fields of literature, cultural theory, media studies and visual art, the authors have produced a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach towards the many representations that claim, with varying degrees of confidence, to tell the story of what really happened on the streets of the Bogside on the afternoon of January 30, 1972.

ISBN-13: 9781859184257
ISBN-10: 1859184251
Pages: 156
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