1. PROJECT WORK
Lingua e Cultura
The Northern Irish Question in the early 1970s
Adriana Stanzione

2. Legal Stuff
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3. The Northern Irish Question
in the early 1970s
Song:
Sunday Bloody Sunday
by U2
Movie:
Bloody Sunday
by Paul Greengrass
photosU2 biography synopsis
through
photos
5ªC
our monthly
programme
what happened
in Londonderry
on 30 January
1972
and why
Internet and computer
will be our assistants
Have you
a good enjoy!
original
sounds
and song

4. movie
video
context
text
U2
practice
original photos
and sounds
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
U2

5. SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
U2
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movie
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U2
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6. I can't believe the news today.
I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cos tonight we can be as one, tonight.
Broken bottles under children's feet.
Bodies strewn across the dead end streets.
But I won't heed the battle call.
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the
wall.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
SUNDAY BLOODY
SUNDAY
And the battle's just begun.
There's too many lost, but tell me who has won?
The trenches dug within our hearts,
And mothers, children, brothers sisters torn apart.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cos tonight we can be as one.
Tonight, tonight.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

7. Wipe the tears from your eyes.
Wipe your tears away.
Wipe your bloodshot eyes.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
And it's true we are immune.
When fact is fiction and TV reality.
And today the millions cry.
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle, it's just begun,
To claim the victory Jesus won
On a Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Words & music by U2

8. Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Londonderry 1972, 30 January

9. An anti-internment march makes
its way down William Street on
30 January 1972
Members of the First Battalion, The
Parachute Regiment, positioned in the
William Street / Little James Street area
plan of area

10. Patrick Doherty, a thirty-one-year-old
father of six, shot dead outside the high
flats in Rossville Street
plan of area

11. Jackie Duddy, one of seven teenagers
killed on Bloody Sunday, tended by
Father Edward Daly and a member of
the Knights of Malta first aid group
St. Mary's Church, Creggan, 2 February
1972. Thirteen coffins line the altar three
days after Bloody Sunday

12. Major General Ford Tim Pigott-Smith
Maclellan Nicholas Farrell
Lagan Gerard McSorley
Ivan Cooper James Nesbitt
Title: Bloody Sunday
Direction: Paul Greengrass
Film-script: Paul Greengrass
Photography: Ivan Strasburg
Music: Dominic Muldoon
Editing: Clare Douglas
Year: 2002
Country: Great Britain
synopsis
Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) attempts
to organize a peaceful protest after
Protestant leaders imprison Catholics
without a trial. His actions conflict with
hard-line IRA members who have no
interest in a "peaceful" response, as well
as the military men responsible for
keeping the peace who are led by Major
General Robert Ford (Tim Pigott-Smith)
and Brigadier Patrick Maclellan
(Nicholas Farrell). By the end of the
day, the military will fire on the
protestors and kill 13 people.

13. Movie trailer from Bloody Sunday (2002)
by Paul Greengrass

14. from Live at Red Rocks, Colorado 1983

15. Larry Mullen Jr.,
drums
Bono, lead singer
and songwriter
The band consists of
The Edge, lead
guitar, keyboards,
vocals
Adam Clayton,
bass guitar
The band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1976
U2 story
U2 has been perhaps the biggest music act in the
world since the late 1980s to the current day

16. The IRA sent a threat to U2 that if they continued their campaign they would be
kidnapped. The band continued anyway
The band's popular 1983 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" commemorated the
slaughter of innocent civilians during the Irish troubles
It called for a renunciation of violence
Throughout the 1980s the band used this song to campaign against the Irish
Republican Army's (IRA) efforts to raise money to fuel continued armed
conflict

17. U2 continues their work for charity
and social action:
they promoted the Northern Ireland
Peace Accords
they played in devastated Sarajevo
following the war there
they helped bolster the shaky economy
of New York City by playing there
following the September 11 terrorist
attacks

18. Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was the culmination of several years heightened
tensions
In the ‘50s and ‘60s the Catholics suffered social deprivation, with
large unemployment and lack of political representation
They didn’t have the same rights as the Protestants
The IRA emerged from the civil unrest and started a campaign
against the British Army and government

19. Loyalists also organised paramilitary groups and declared war on
the IRA
The situation began chaotic. The Prime Minister decided to send
British troops in an effort to maintain peace
The Civil Rights Association, a Catholic movement to attempt to
combat discrimination by the Protestant majority in Northern
Ireland, against the Catholics, organised a march

20. Some members of the crowd threw stones at the army which
escalated, according to some sources, into a more serious
disturbance
13 of these people died on the day, one other perished later from his
wounds
The armed forces opened fire. They hit 26 people
March began peacefully but tension rose as the marchers were
prevented from going further by an army blockade

21. Why the armed forces opened fire is the subject of much debate
Many of the protestors and independent eyewitnesses suggest that
the armed forces opened fire without any provocation
An alternative explanation is that they panicked. The paratroops
regiment thought they were under attack from the IRA

22. practice
listening
reading
writing
speaking
multi-medial tools
final report

23. practice
listening
reading
writing
multi-medial tools
speaking
final report

24. the right order of the lines is:
I can’t believe the news today.
I can’t close my eyes and
make it go away.
How long, how long
must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
‘Cos tonight we can be as one,
tonight.
Broken bottles under children’s
feet.
Bodies strewn across
the dead end streets.
But I won’t need the battle call.
It puts my back up,
puts my back up against the wall.
the right sentences are:
There's too many____, but tell me who
___ won?
The trenches dug within our _____,
And mothers, children, brothers sisters
______ ________.
And it's true we are _______ .
When fact is _____ and TV _______ .
And today the _______ cry.
We eat and drink ______ tomorrow ____ die
The real ______ , it's just ______,
To ______ the ________ Jesus ____

25. listening activities
Do you know this song?
while listening to the song:
before listening to the song:
What do you know about U2?
Put the following lines in order
How long? How long?
It puts my back up, puts my back up
against the wall.
Bodies strewn across the dead end streets.
I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.
But I won’t need the battle call.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
Broken bottles under children’s feet.
I can’t believe the news today.
‘Cos tonight we can be as one, tonight.
Check yourself
It is part of the soundtrack of a film, what is its name?
Who plays in that film?
Complete the gaps as you listen to the song
And it's true we are _______ .
When fact is _____ and TV _______ .
And today the _______ cry.
We eat and drink ______ tomorrow ____ die
The real ______ , it's just ______,
To ______ the ________ Jesus ____
There's too many____, but tell me who ___
won?
The trenches dug within our _____,
And mothers, children, brothers sisters ______
________.
Check yourself
after listening
All students sing aloud together The students prepare a karaoke

26. Some students, in pair or in group of three, research on Internet about
U2 story
Other students research photographs of political murals concerning the
Northern Irish Question
reading and writing activities
Some other students create a short summary answering to a questionnaire on
Irish Question (look at it)

27. questionnaire
What happened in Ireland in 1922?
Who lived in the north?
What happened during the 50s and 60s?
What is the IRA?
What did they do?
How did the Loyalist react?
What did the Prime Minister do?
What happened in 1972?
How many people have been killed in 30
years?
How is the situation in Northern Ireland
actually?
Why U2 is so close at this argument?

28. speaking activities
Some students memorize the song, and after that they perform it as a poem
Other students are divided in three groups. The first group imagines to
create an ideal interview with a Loyalist and with a Catholic; the second one
organizes their answers as a Protestant and the third one organizes their
answers as a Catholic. Then the students play the different parts.

29. multi-medial tools
Students, in small groups, do interactive exercises on computer in school lab:
true/false (see the example), jeopardy (see the example), multiple choice (
see the example), etc.

30. True or False
1. In 1800 Ireland was part of the UK.
2. Catholic wanted to be part of the UK.
3. The majority of the people in Ulster are
Protestant.
4. In 1922 there was the formation of the Irish
free state.
5. IRA means Irish Rebel Army.
6. In 1972 British soldiers killed 23 civilians.
7. 30 January 1972 is called “Sunday Bloody
Sunday”.
8. Loyalists were against IRA.
9. Ira was against Irish government.
10.After the Good Friday agreement there is
peace in Ulster.
true false

31. Well done!
Go on

32. Repeat
and
tRy aGain

33. 2 pt
3 pt
4 pt
5pt
1 pt
2 pt
3 pt
4 pt
5 pt
1 pt
2pt
3 pt
4pt
5 pt
1pt
2pt
3 pt
4 pt
5 pt
1 pt
2 pt
3 pt
4pt
5 pt
1pt
Sunday
Bloody
Sunday
U2
“Bloody
Sunday”
Ulster
Bloody
Sunday
by P. Greengrass

34. Is this song part of
U2’s 1th album, WAR?

35. Bono’s nickname is for

36. On 30 January 1972
Loyalists shot at 13 people in Derry

37. Ulster has been an independent Republic
since 1922

38. On 2002 Bloody Sunday by P.Greengrass
won
“The Golden Lion” in Venice

39. multiple choice
How long, how long must we sing this song?"
What’s the meaning of “U2”?
It’s a famous verse from Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar by W. Shakespeare.
It’s a well-known superstitious sentence The Edge repeats at the end of every
concerts of them.
1.
2.
It’s a very meaningful verse from Psalm 40 by Prophet David in Bible.3.
1. It’s the name of a famous German submarine well-known as U-Boot.
2. It’s “you too”, the same sound of U2.
3. It’s the name of the travel agency opposite the garage where they played at the
end 1970s .

40. Well done!
Go on

41. Repeat
and
tRy aGain

42. Repeat
and
tRy aGain

43. Well done!
Go on

44. final report
At the end of this module the students will produce a hypertext about all
these topics. It will be shown to the other forms and to their parents at the
end of the school year.