Bloody Sunday Sources Questions

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Mark Walker 10sws

Coursework Assignment: "Bloody Sunday" 30 January 1972

. Sources A to C are not very useful to somebody that wants to find out the truth about the situation in Northern Ireland in January 1872 before "Bloody Sunday". This is because they are all drawn by either an Irish or an English person. For example, source A must have been drawn by an English man because it shows a well dressed man - English and a giant man - Irish who looks like a peasant, holding a knife at the English man. This drawing is titled "The Irish Frankenstein" and because the English hated the Irish at the time so the Irish man is shown in an evil and dominating way. Also if this cartoon was shown to English people at the time then they would have believed it and this could be a factor in the reasons that cause the English hate for the Irish.

Source B is an advertisement for a film; it is called "The Ultimate in Psychopathic Horror the Irish". Under this title there are the names of several Irish terrorist organisations - IRA, INLA, UDF, UDA, etc. Because of this biased view against the Irish and English person must also have drawn this as once again it shows the Irish as being very evil and bad people.

Finally source C shows English soldiers interrogating and holding Irish citizens at gunpoint. This would have been drawn by an Irish person it shows the English to be bad, evil people.

However, these sources may be useful in telling the truth of what the English and Irish though of each other. This is because in each source the side that the artist isn't on is shown worse than the side that the artist is on. In source A the artist must be English because it shows a huge blindfolded man in peasant clothes attacking a small man in upper class clothes who is probably English.

2. Sources D and E disagree about who stared shooting because one's
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Written by a Protestant and the other by a Catholic. Although this doesn't mean they can't be used as evidence because it shows the views of both sides, and this will be the case with all evidence. Every piece of evidence will be biased towards the Catholic or Protestant, depending whom wrote it.

Source D is an eyewitness account made by the Commander of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment. He says that when they got to the Roseville Flats they came under fire and had petrol-bombs thrown on them and acid poured down on them ...

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