Bloody Sunday
The specter of British lead haunts every scene in Paul Greengrass’ “Bloody Sunday” until it comes blasting out of their gun barrels
Northern Ireland can feel far away from the rest of the United Kingdom. Its political party system is different from Great Britain’s. Its politics are intensely sectarian in a way that seems out of place in modern Europe. The level of violence it sustained in the twentieth century makes it an outlier in post-1945 Western Europe.
We tend to think of the United Kingdom as a peaceful Western…