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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on the Bloody Sunday anniversary: the legacy remains

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A mural in Derry depicting events from Bloody Sunday. ‘Half a century on, it is important to acknowledge this still unquiet legacy.’ Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
A ḿṛl in Deri dpictñ ivnts fṛm Bludi Súnde. ’Haf a snć̣ri on, it z importnt t acnolij ɖs stl unqayt leġsi.’ Foṭgraf: Pōl Feʈ/AFP/Geti Iṃjz

Ɖ Gardịn vy on ɖ Bludi Súnde aṇvrsri: ɖ leġsi rmenz

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 28 January 2022)

Īvn 50 yirz lêtr, ɖ cilñz in Deri in 1972 cast a loñ śado ovr Britn’z poḷsiz in Norɖn Îrḷnd

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Frîde 28 Jańri 2022

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Fr mni on bʈ sîdz v ɖ Îriś Sì, ɖ cilñ v 14 unarmd sivl-rîts deṃnstretrz bî membrz v ɖ Britiś armi’z Paṛśutrejimnt on Bludi Súnde in 1972 rmenz ɖ dfînñ ǎtrej v Norɖn Îrḷnd’z 30-yir Trublz. It wz srtnli ɖ most p’liticli daṃjñ t Britn. Ɖ śūtñz, ẃć tc ples in Deri’z Bogsîd district 50 yirz ago on Súnde, śoct ɖz îḷndz n ɖ wrld. Ɖe stl d n ɖe stl śd. Bludi Súnde wz nt ɖ onli snslis act v vayḷns jrñ ɖ Trublz. Mni mor cilñz wr carid ǎt jrñ ɖoz 30 yirz bî paṛmilitri grūps fṛm bʈ sîdz ɖn bî ɖ s’kṛtiforsz (n mor ɖn fîv tîmz az mni in ɖ ces v ɖ IRA). Bt ɖ śūtñz in Deri md ɖ Norɖn Îrḷnd crîsis dīpn dṛmaticli, léd t a stīp esc̣leśn v vayḷns, cōzd a būst in IRA rcrūtmnt n dd hyj repyteśnl harm t Britn, its Norɖn Îrḷnd poḷsi n its insttyśnz.

Olmst az bad az Bludi Súnde itslf wz ɖ ofiśl atmt t cuvr p ẃt hapnd, n ɖ lîz ɖt wr cnsistntli tld, includñ at ɖ hîist levl v guvnmnt n in ɖ frst jdiśl inqîri ɖt wz anǎnst dez aftr ɖ cilñz. In ɖ end it wd tec nirli 40 yirz bfr ɖ YC guvnmnt acnolijd ɖ truʈ abt 30 Jańri 1972 n apoḷjîzd, aftr Lord Savil’z inqîri faund in 2010 ɖt nn v ɖ caźltiz wr pozñ a ʈret or dwñ enʈñ ɖt wd jusṭfî śūtñ ɖm. Īvn nǎ, mni aspects v Bludi Súnde rmen sorsz v dspyt, in ptiklr ɖ feḷr t psy indivijl soljrz ʈru proṣkśnz.

Haf a snć̣ri on, it z importnt t acnolij ɖs stl unqayt leġsi. Norɖn Îrḷnd hz bn at pīs, mor or les, sins 1998. Ɖ ʈret v vayḷns, includñ stet n paṛmilitri vayḷns, z dsîsivli dminiśt. Pǎr z nǎ śerd, nt hōrdd az it stl wz ẃn ɖ Trublz brouc ǎt. Norɖn Îrḷnd z indd unrecgnîẓbl in mni wez fṛm 50 yirz ago. Bt nt in evri we. Ɖs wīcend’z aṇvrsri hz in no sns bn ɖ oceźn fr ɖ difṛnt tṛdiśnz t imbres wn anɖr in a spirit v śerd sadnis n rmembṛns.

Instd, ɖ cmeṃreśnz rten a dstñt éj. Ɖ DYP frst ministr v Norɖn Îrḷnd, Pōl Givn, hz rfyzd t atnd eni v ɖ ivnts at ol ɖs wīcend (instd, on Ʈrzde, hiz alîz cmeṃretd ɖ cilñz v tū p’līs ofisrz in ɖ dez bfr Bludi Súnde). Ɖ SDLP līdr, Coḷm Īstwŭd, huz cnstitẏnsi includz Deri, hz sd ɖ paṛśutrejimnt wr “snt t mî siti t mrdr” n hz cōld fr an ofiśl apoḷji fṛm ɖ armi. In Deri on Súnde, ɖ Îriś prîm̦inistr z lîcli t b preznt, bt nt, it cuṛntli apirz, ɖ Britiś wn.

Phps ɖs ejinis z un’vôḍbl, gvn ɖ rw imośnl pǎr v an ivnt lîc Bludi Súnde, ẃć mni stl livñ rmembr vividli. Yt it z nt mni yirz sins ɖ YC n ɖ Îriś Rpublic tgɖr naṿgetd sm importnt Îriś historicl sntīṇriz in imajiṇtiv n coopṛtiv wez ẃć hlpt t streñʈn ɖ pīsproses n gd rleśnz acrs ǎr îḷndz rɖr ɖn wìc̣nñ ɖm. W sīm t b slipñ bac fṛm sć a far-sîtd aproć nǎ.

Nẃr z ɖs mor obvịs at preznt ɖn in rleśn t ɖ Norɖn Îrḷnd proṭcol v ɖ YC’z Brexit-wɖdrwl agrīmnt. Ɖ instbiḷti cōzd bî Brexit wośz ovr intu mni uɖr ʈñz, includñ aṇvrsriz lîc Bludi Súnde, n uɖr Trublz mîlstonz stl t cm. Nt evrʈñ abt Norɖn Îrḷnd śd b blemd xclusivli on ɖ Britiś guvnmnt. Bt unls ɖ Britiś guvnmnt ingejz cnstructivli, cnsistntli n oṇstli in Norɖn Îrḷnd, riyl denjrz folo, jst az ɖe r dwñ nǎ.

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Fṛm ɖ Obzrvr │ Despite the violent past and toxic present, Britain and Ireland cannot escape the ties that bind

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Iḷstreśn: Doṃnic MCnzi/Ɖ Obzrvr
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Dspt ɖ vayḷnt past n toxic preznt, Britn n Îrḷnd canot iscep ɖ tîz ɖt bînd

(Transcription of an Observer article of 23 January 2022)

Ɖ fiftiiʈ aṇvrsri v Bludi Súnde rmîndz s ɖt hisṭri n jiogṛfi mīn ɖt nǎ, az ɖen, ɖ fets v ɖ tū cuntriz r intwînd

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Fintn OTūl, Súnde, 23 Jańri 2022

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Olmst 50 yirz ago, in ɖ rli aurz v 2 Febrri 1972, ɖ Britiś emḅsi in Dublin wz gutd bî fîr. Ɖs wz nt an axidnt. A hyj crǎd hd gaɖrd in protest ǎtsd ɖ luvli Jorjn teris in Merịn Sqer ol ʈru ɖ prīvịs de. Ɖe ćird az yuñ men clîmd acrs ɖ balc̣niz n smaśt a windo. Ɖe ʈrù in sm petṛl n lit it. A fyẓled v petṛlbomz wz unlīśt fṛm ɖ crǎd. Ppl ćantd ɖ slogn ɖe hd lrnt fṛm ɖ Wots rayts in Los Angeles in 1965: brn, bebi, brn. Ɖ p’līs dd nʈñ t stop ɖ atac.

I wz 14 at ɖ tîm, so I wz’nt ɖr. Bt sm v mî oldr frendz wr n I wśt I hd bn wɖ ɖm. Ɖ asōlt wz orġnîzd bî ɖ IRA, bt most ordnri, pīsfl Îriś ppl apruvd v it. It sīmd lîc ɖ rît ʈñ t d, a rīzṇbl rspons t ɖ maṣcr ɖ prīvịs wīcend in Deri v 13 unarmd sviłnz bî ɖ frst btałn v ɖ Britiś armi’z Paṛśutrejimnt. A wmn wêtñ fr a bus in Dublin tld ɖ Îriś Tîmz: “I flt ǎtrejd ɖt ɖ Britiś śd d ɖs n I flt ɖt ẃtvr ɖ rîts n roñz, ɖe wd nǒ hǎ w flt ẃn w brnt dǎn ɖer emḅsi.”

Ɖ ǎtrej wz nt jst ɖ atroṣti in Deri itslf. It wz olso ɖ we ɖ Britiś laid abt it, fōlsli clemñ ɖt ɖ paṛtruprz hd cm undr fîr n wr pṛtctñ ɖmslvz agnst terrists. Ɖ ofiśl Wiɉri inqîri, ẃć isnṣ́li rpitd ɖs lî, md it clir ɖ Britiś stet hd no inṭrest in acnoḷjñ ẃt hd hapnd, let alon puṇśñ enwn fr ẃt ɖ Deri coṛnr, Mejr Hyḅt ONīl, cōld “śir un’dulṭretd mrdr”. Agnst sć imprvịsnis, brnñ dǎn ɖ emḅsi dd indd sīm lîc ɖ onli we t let ɖ Britiś istabliśmnt nǒ hǎ most Îriś ppl flt.

Ɖus, 50 yirz aftr ɖ fǎndeśn v ɖ Îriś Fri Stet, rleśnz btwn Britn n indipndnt Îrḷnd wr abt az bad az ɖe cd b. Ɖr hd bn uɖr lo pônts, ptiklrli jrñ ɖ Secnd Wrldwor, ẃn Îrḷnd’z ńtraḷti sīmd, t mni in Britn, a scandḷs btreyl. Bt rleśnz aftr Bludi Súnde sīmd īvn wrs bcz ɖ slōtr wz wn episod – olbiit an ispeṣ́li dzastṛs wn – in a conflict in Norɖn Îrḷnd ɖt wz stl esc̣letñ. (1972 wd indd trn ǎt t b ɖ bludiist yir v ɖ Trublz.) It flt in ɖoz munʈs olmst az f ɖ tū stets on ɖz îḷndz wr slîdñ uncntroḷbli intu ḿćl n vayḷnt hostiḷti.

Yt, jst et dez bfr Bludi Súnde, smʈñ cmplitli difṛnt hd hapnd. Ɖ Britiś prim̦inistr, Edẉd Hīʈ, n ɖ taoiseach, Jac Linć, hd bn tgɖr in a seṛmońl hōl in Bruslz t ć sîn hiz cuntri’z trītiz v axeśn t ɖ Yṛpiyn Ic̣nomic̦ḿṇti. Ɖr r picćrz v ɖ tū men standñ śoldr t śoldr, bʈ bīmñ wɖ boṇmi. Les ɖn a yir aftr ɖ brnñ v ɖ emḅsi in Dublin, ɖ tū cuntriz wd b clos partnrz in ɖ Yṛpiyn project. It z fer t se, morovr, ɖt Îrḷnd oud its ples in ẃt wz ɖen an xclūsiv club t its dīp ic̣nomic cnx́n t Britn. On its ǒn, Îrḷnd wz tù pur t jusṭfî a sīt at ɖ top tebl v Yṛp. It wz admitd isnṣ́li on Britn’z coțeilz.

It z strenj, in retṛspect, hǎ ɖz tū storiz ran sîd bî sîd – wn v pṛfǎnd n dīpli rūtd aṇmoṣti, ɖ uɖr v intns cooṗreśn; wn fl v fracć̣rñ n dviźn, ɖ uɖr a jônt cmitmnt t “evr closr yńn” in Yṛp. Az it hapnd, membrśp v ɖ YY alaud Îrḷnd t wīn itslf of its dpndnsi on ɖ Britiś icoṇmi n t aćiv a mć mor sbstanśl indipndns. (Wn v ɖ mni ʈñz Brexitrz cd nvr unḍstand z ɖs nośn ɖt ɖ s’pozidli opresiv YY cd b, fr smōl neśnz, a rùt ǎt v doṃneśn bî bigr nebrz.) Bt it olso bcem a scūl in ẃć Îriś n Britiś guvnmnts lrnt t wrc vri closli, n rspctḟli, tgɖr.

Ɖt xpirịns, in trn, md poṣbl ɖ jônt coriogṛfi v ɖ 1990z, ɖ cerḟli caḷbretd steps ɖt pṛdyst ɖ pīs’grīmnt v 1998. Bî 2011, ẃn ɖ Qīn bcem ɖ frst Britiś moṇc in a snć̣ri t vizit suɖn Îrḷnd, it riyli flt lîc ɖs gd-nebrlinis hd bcm a prṃnnt cndiśn, ɖt Britiś aṛgns n Îriś rej wr xibits in a ḿziym v historicl krioṣtiz.

Ɖt iluźn v prṃnns wz śatrd bî Brexit, nt jst bî ɖ los v ɖ comn grǎnd v YY membrśp bt olso bî ɖ rfyzl t ʈnc at ol abt ɖ consiqnsz fr ɖ îḷnd v Îrḷnd. Mni v ɖ Brexitrz stl si ɖoz consiqnsz nt az ɖ inevitbl rzults v ɖer ǒn ćôsz, bt az sm cnd v Îriś cnspiṛsi t ʈwort ɖm. Ɖr z a cornr v ɖer mîndz in ẃć Brexit wd hv bn a rip-rorñ trîumf bî nǎ f ɖ dámd Îriś hd’nt spôld it wɖ ɖer bacstops n proṭcolz. Ɖ opn atmts v ɖ Jonsn admiṇstreśn t ter p ɖ agrīmnts on ɖ Îriś dmnśn v Brexit hv rvîvd ɖt old spectr, Pfidịs Albịn.

N yt w śd rmembr 1972. Īvn at ɖt ōfl nedir, ɖ stecs wr far tù hî fr Britn n Îrḷnd t alǎ ɖer rleśnśp t dtirịret intu toxiṣti. Tū litl ʈñz forst ɖm tgɖr: hisṭri n jiogṛfi. Ɖ tū big îḷndz on ǎr arc̣peḷgo cn no mor iscep ć uɖr’z fets ɖn Britn cn flot of intu ɖ Atlantic awe fṛm Yṛp.

Mbi ɖr r īvn wez in ẃć w unḍstand ć uɖr betr. Sm slo lrnrz in Britn hv dscuvrd, aftr a mir snć̣ri, ɖt Îrḷnd z an indipndnt cuntri wɖ its ǒn naśnl inṭrests n rleśnśps wɖ Yṛp. Îriś ppl hv dscuvrd ɖt ɖe hv no mnoṗli in ɖz îḷndz on îdntticrîsīz n bîṇri triḅlizmz. It z ny fr Îrḷnd t fīl lîc ɖ mor stebl n slf-confidnt v ɖ stets on ɖ arc̣peḷgo n ny fr Britn t b dīlñ wɖ ɖ frax́s afṭmaʈ v a naśṇlist reṿluśn. It me tec sm tîm fr ol v s t gt yst t ɖz novltiz. Bt in mć wrs srcmstansz, w hv faund wez t fes ny riaḷtiz tgɖr.

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• Fintn OTūl’z most rīsnt bc z W D’nt Nǒ Ǎrslvz: A Prsnl Hisṭri v Îrḷnd Sins 1958

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