Bloody Sunday (film) of the in 1972. The movie was inspired by Don Mullan's politically influential book "Eyewitness Bloody Sunday" (Wolfhound Press, 1997). The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, an SDLP Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972. The march ended when British Army paratroopers fired on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another who died four-and-a-half months later. The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, a live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2
Bloody Sunday (1972) of the military but takes a long term view with regard to a solution. In Harper's book ("The Passions of Great Fortune"), his comment on the song ends "…there must always be some hope that the children of 'Bloody Sunday', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom". Brian Friel's 1973 play "The Freedom of the City" deals with the incident from the viewpoint of three civilians. Irish poet Seamus Heaney's "Casualty" (published in "Field Work," 1981) criticizes Britain for the death of his friend. The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song "Sunday