Bloody Sunday (film) Bloody Sunday (film) Bloody Sunday is a 2002 Irish film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass. Though set in Derry, the film was actually shot in Ballymun in North Dublin. However, some location scenes were shot in Derry, in Guildhall Square and in Creggan on the actual route
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) the same title. Madinger and Easter similarly consider U2's song to be "superior". Lennon biographer Jon Wiener regarded the song as a "failure". According to Carr and fellow "NME" writer Tony Tyler, Lennon's prestige in England nosedived as a result of the song's accusations of genocide. Journalist Robin Denselow criticised the lyrics of both of Lennon's Irish-themed songs on "Some Time in New York City" in 1989, and summarised much of the criticism of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in stating that: the suggestions at the end of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" that the problem be solved by shipping back to Britain the