Content tagged with “ireland”
There are 2 item(s) tagged with “ireland” on this site.
Other tags used by these items: history, northern-ireland
“Lots of people have been killed on Sundays, and the phrase is used to describe lots of mass killings. Wikipedia shows 20+ events that are connected to the phrase. The most recent event and the one most clearly associated with the phrase from this generation is a 1972 shooting of protesters in…”
“This is an absolutely compelling history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It’s fairly comprehensive, but it uses a single murder as a narrative hook. Jean McConville, a widow with 10 children, was taken from her house one evening and ‘disappeared’ – she was just never seen or heard from again….”
