The Bloody Friday Massacres - 21st July, 1972

Started by Evil Genius, July 21, 2012, 05:51:05 PM

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Maguire01

#30
July 22, 2012, 11:04:29 PM
Quote from: Gazzler on July 22, 2012, 07:08:12 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 22, 2012, 12:35:22 PM
Quote from: optimus cheese on July 22, 2012, 11:00:21 AM
I didn't watch it, I can't be arsed really.
Same here.
and here.
Strange responses. Why bother at all if that's the level of comment?

Farrandeelin

#31
July 23, 2012, 02:08:13 AM
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on July 22, 2012, 12:25:19 AM
I, too, would like to know why EG thinks every Irish person needs to see this on a "compulsory" basis.

So would I.
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thejuice

#32
July 23, 2012, 10:47:28 AM
Will watch later tonight.
It won't be the next manager but the one after that Meath will become competitive again - MO'D 2016

Shamrock Shore

#33
July 23, 2012, 11:26:44 AM
Well, I cannot watch it on iPlayer as I am outside of the UK.

Still waiting for EG to let me know why he thinks I am obliged to watch it.

deiseach

#34
July 23, 2012, 12:32:59 PM
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on July 23, 2012, 11:26:44 AM
Well, I cannot watch it on iPlayer as I am outside of the UK.

Expat Shield. It's the business

ziggysego

#35
July 23, 2012, 01:15:24 PM
I missed it, must watch it on the iPlayer.

Just a note EG: RTE Player is available in the north, except for programming which clashes with BBC, BSKYb or ITV,
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Applesisapples

#36
July 23, 2012, 01:34:39 PM
Is it not time to give up on these anniversaries? I lived through it all once.

Denn Forever

#37
July 23, 2012, 01:46:36 PM
I have more respect for a man
that says what he means and
means what he says...

Saffrongael

#38
July 23, 2012, 08:51:57 PM
Always sad when youngsters are murdered, as the fella that lost his wife, a mother of 7, said about the IRA - "absolute mindless morons", summed it up. All for nothing.
Let no-one say the best hurlers belong to the past. They are with us now, and better yet to come

saffron sam2

#39
July 23, 2012, 09:45:44 PM
1972 was a shocking year by any standards.

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1972.html
the breathing of the vanished lies in acres round my feet

mylestheslasher

#41
July 23, 2012, 10:12:53 PM
Brendan Hughes wrote a lot of stuff about Gerry Adams when interviewed by the Boston college thing. It was used by many unionists as strong evidence that Gerry was the man in charge on the street, ordered killings and ordered that Jean McConville be shot. In those same interviews Hughes, if i recall correctly, said that more bombs blew up than what they had planted. Did that come up at all on the program?

Tony Baloney

#42
July 23, 2012, 10:45:21 PM
Quote from: Take Your Points on July 23, 2012, 10:44:20 PM
Actually, it was the opposite as more bombs were planted than exploded, from memory two were defused and at least two didn't explode.
Big difference as Myles post infers a conspiracy.

mylestheslasher

#43
July 23, 2012, 11:30:07 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on July 23, 2012, 10:45:21 PM
Quote from: Take Your Points on July 23, 2012, 10:44:20 PM
Actually, it was the opposite as more bombs were planted than exploded, from memory two were defused and at least two didn't explode.
Big difference as Myles post infers a conspiracy.

I don't have the book to hand but I'm almost certain Hughes said that.

Oraisteach

#44
July 24, 2012, 01:59:24 AM
Amid the carnage of 1972, two deaths stand out in my memory (see SaffronSam's post)—the March 29 death of Ruby Johnson and the August 7 death of the soldier Geoffrey Knipe.

Sean O'Hagan wrote a poignant piece about Ruby Johnson's death.  Like myself, he grew up in Drumarg, not far from the Ring Road where the awful incident happened.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2002/apr/21/features.magazine37

The best literary piece I've read about this whole period is Chapter 11 of Robert McLiam Wilson's novel Eureka Street. Worth a glance if you can get your hands on it.
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