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<p>In 2010, 13 of the 14 victims of Bloody Sunday were publicly exonerated by the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry after the lengthy struggle of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign (BSJC). By 2011 however, the BSJC publicly fractured over the impact of the Report and whether to continue the annual Bloody Sunday March. This article argues the split in the BSJC is a proxy for a broader struggle between divergent “spatial stories” (de Certeau 1984) of the city of Derry itself. Will Derry be narrated as a city transcending its difficult past or will the original struggle remain perpetually present?</p>
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In 2010, 13 of the 14 victims of Bloody Sunday were publicly exonerated by the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry after the lengthy struggle of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign (BSJC). By 2011 however, the BSJC publicly fractured over the impact of the Report and whether to continue the annual Bloody Sunday March. This article argues the split in the BSJC is a proxy for a broader struggle between divergent “spatial stories” (de Certeau 1984) of the city of Derry itself. Will Derry be narrated as a city transcending its difficult past or will the original struggle remain perpetually present?

Derry, Bloody Sunday, and the “Great Sea-Change”

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

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In 2010, 13 of the 14 victims of Bloody Sunday were publicly exonerated by the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry after the lengthy struggle of the Bloody...

Derry, Bloody Sunday, and the “Great Sea-Change”

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2023

Páginas: 111 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2023-0008

Palabras clave
Northern Ireland, Derry, Bloody Sunday, spatial stories

© 2023 Joseph S. Robinson, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Derry, Bloody Sunday, and the “Great Sea-Change”

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2023

Páginas: 111 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2023-0008

Palabras claveNorthern Ireland, Derry, Bloody Sunday, spatial stories

© 2023 Joseph S. Robinson, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Northern Ireland, Derry, Bloody Sunday, spatial stories