Irish artistic music response to Bloody Sunday

Two of the former Beatles responded to this incident in Derry or Londonderry.  Paul McCartney recorded the first song in response only two days after the incident.  The single was entitled “Give Ireland Back to the Irish,” but was banned by the BBC.  The 1972 John Lennon album Some Time in New York City featured a song entitled “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” inspired by the incident, as well as the song “The Luck of the Irish,” which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.  Lennon, who was of Irish descent like McCartney, also spoke at a protest in New York in support of the victims and families of Bloody Sunday.  Irish poet Thomas Kinsella’s 1972 poem “Butcher’s Dozen” was a satirical and angry response to the “Widgery Tribunal” and the events of Bloody Sunday.  Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” on the album of the same name in 1973.  The Roy Harper song “All Ireland” from the album Lifemask, written in the days following the incident, is critical of the military but takes a long-term view with regard to a solution.  Brian Friel’s 1973 play The Freedom of the City dealt with the incident from the viewpoint of three civilians.  Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s Casualty (1981) criticized Britain for the death of his friend.  The Irish rock band U2 commemorated the incident in their 1983 protest song “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”  Christy Moore’s song “Minds Locked Shut” on the album Graffiti Tongue was all about the events of the day, and named the dead civilians.  The events of that day have been dramatized in two 2002 television films, Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday by Jimmy McGovern.  The Celtic metal band Cruachan addressed the incident in a song “Bloody Sunday” from their 2002 album Folk-Lore.  Willie Doherty, a Derry-born artist, has amassed a large body of work which addresses the troubles in Northern Ireland. “30 January 1972” deals specifically with the events of Bloody Sunday.  In mid-2005, the play Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a dramatization based on the Saville Inquiry, opened in London, and subsequently travelled to Derry and Dublin.  The writer, journalist Richard Norton-Taylor, distilled four years of evidence into two hours of stage performance at the Tricycle Theatre.  The play received glowing reviews in all the British newspapers, including The Times, “The Tricycle’s latest re-creation of a major inquiry is its most devastating.” The Daily Telegraph said, “I can’t praise this enthralling production too highly… exceptionally gripping courtroom drama.”  The Independent wrote, “A necessary triumph.”  In October 2010, T with the Maggies released the song “Domhnach na Fola” (Irish for “Bloody Sunday”), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album.  There is no doubt that this incident in Derry has become part of Irish folklore and culture.  Will the fighting ever end?  My father who would die later in 1972, the same year as this incident, was fighting for this over a hundred years ago.  Are you familiar with the Irish civil war?