Irlande du Nord

devenu une vertu (..) Tout était justifié, tant que cela rapportant de l'argent. Et ça, ça nous est resté." The Irish News, le principal quotidien catholique d’Irlande du Nord, fait ressortir le côté guerrier de Thatcher, avec une photographie d'elle descendant d'un hélicoptère de l'armée britannique. L’ancien homme politique nord-irlandais John Hume rappelle le caractère "intransigeant et belligérant" de la "Dame de fer". Il qualifie Margaret Thatcher de "personnage extrêmement clivant", mais lui

l'Irlande du Nord. Des groupes armés se forment et s'affrontent des deux cotés comme L'IRA (Irish Republican Army) pour les catholiques et l'Ulster Volunteer Force pour les protestants. Mais ce conflit oppose aussi la population irlandaise catholique à la police et l'armée britannique. Les catholiques se plaignent d'une ségrégation confessionnelle et de ne pas avoir les mêmes droits civiques. Ce titre fait référence au dimanche sanglant, page noire de l'histoire de l'Irlande du nord. En 1972

ton légèrement humoristique. Il y aussi certains évènement dont on parle moins, mais qui sont pourtant sujets de chansons très connues, comme « Sunday Bloody Sunday » de U2, il s’agit d’un « hommage au Bloody Sunday survenu à Derry lors du conflit nord-irlandais en 1972 ». Les paroles n’ont ici rien d’humoristique, on peut voir la violence de ce conflit : « Des bouteilles brisées sous des pieds d'enfants\Des corps qui jonchent une rue sans issue … Et la bataille vient de commencer\Beaucoup sont perdus

apprenant la mort de Jonathan Ball, âgé de 5 ans, et de Tim Parry, âgé de 12 ans, victimes d'un attentat commis par l'IRA* à Warrington à l’Est de l’Angleterre. Le 20 Mars 1993, Dolores O'Riordan écrit la chanson "Zombie" qui parlera alors du conflit Nord-Irlandais, qui opposé le Royaume Unie, l'Irlande et des forces indépendantes menées par l'IRA. (IRA : Armée républicaine irlandaise) Analyse de l’œuvre : 1. La formation générale de l’oeuvre -La chanson à une forme couplet/refrain. Les couplets ont

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1. Introduce the document and identify the artists (are they Unionists or Republicans, do they belong to the Prostestant or Catholic community? If you can, say when it was made) 2. Identify the event depicted and describe the mural (place, date, protagonists, what happened…) 3. Analyse the symbols present and go through the various goals of the artists ( pay tribute to those who sacrificed their lives, remind people of important historical events or figures in Irish history, denounce