Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland

Informers, agents and the liberal ideology of collusion in Northern Ireland

“…As Guelke (2007, 275) himself notes, in reality the phases he identifies were far from being 'watertight compartments'. In the midst of 'militarisation', for example, the state (or elements within it) could still favour and pursue alternative, political approaches, as evidenced by the 1972 Conservative Government talks with republicans and the failed Sunningdale power-sharing agreement of 1974 (Bew and Patterson 1985, Cunningham 2001, Smith 2011 all such efforts ultimately failed, auguring in the containment strategy that followed (O'Dowd, Rolston and Tomlinson 1982, Rolston 1991, Walsh 2000.…”

Police governance and accountability: overview of current issues

“…There have been occasions when, arguably, the pursuit of the latter has been jeopardised and perhaps even seriously undermined by insufficient attention being given to the former. The Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry, for example, took twelve years and cost about €200 million to deliver a report of over 5,000 pages, almost forty years after the event [249]. Since it concerned the actions of British soldiers in shooting dead 13 unarmed civilians on the streets of a city in the United Kingdom, it is understandable that no effort and expense should be spared in uncovering the full truth to the extent that that is possible.…”

Active Remembering, Selective Forgetting, and Collective Identity: The Case of Bloody Sunday

“…From this period on, Irish Catholics were regarded as a subordinate group (Ó Dochartaigh, 1997). In the period 1800 to 1921, the (Walsh, 2000). But this treaty arguably brought more division than unity, causing a split and civil war between a pro-Treaty camp on the onehand and an anti-Treaty camp on the other, a fault line that defined the political terrain in the Irish…”

“…Structural inequalities along religious lines were materialized most in local authority housing 7 -if a Catholic was allocated a house by the local housing authority it invariably was the lowest standard one (Walsh, 2000).…”

“…However, forensic and other evidence showed that none of the civilians who were killed were carrying weapons or bombs (Walsh, 2000;Lee, 1989 (Walsh, 2000).…”