Tuesday's Grace

[mgc1961]

ONE of the most extraordinary days in the mottled history of the island of Ireland was witnessed on both sides of the border last Tuesday.

The much-anticipated and costly Saville report ... the 12-years-in-the-making inquiry into “Bloody Sunday,” a day never to be forgotten in Irish politics ... was finally published.

On that day, Jan. 30, 1972, British soldiers fired on a civil rights march in the majority Catholic area of the Bogside in Derry, killing 14 protesters.

It was a day that caused the conflict between the two communities in Northern Ireland — Catholic nationalist and Protestant unionist — to spiral into another dimension: every Irish person conscious on that day has a mental picture of Edward Daly, later the bishop of Derry, holding a blood-stained handkerchief aloft as he valiantly tended to the wounded and the dying.


More to read at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/opinion/20bono.html?hp

[HillbillyBob]

1. While I realise there were many other factor

involved. Such as Irish Independence, oppression etc..but at the heart of the Difficulties was religion.

The Evilgelicals and DOminionists would bring this heartbreak and horror to every other sect or non religious person when they manage to finally kill democracy and install their dream(our nightmare) of theocracy.