(historical, British, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
(historical, British, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(obsolete, British) bloody.
Bluidy is an older dialectal British spelling and pronunciation of 'bloody,' used as an intensifier to express strong emotion, frustration, or emphasis. Found in historical texts, Scots dialect writing, and older British literature, it captures the authentic phonological shift in certain regional accents where the 'oo' sound replaces the standard 'uh.' While largely obsolete today, it survives in written Scots dialect and historical fiction as a vivid, authentic marker of period or regional speech.
(British, historical) A failed conspiracy, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.
“On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath By Those Who Were There by Julieann Campbell #books #literature #dedication”
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(historical, USA) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
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(historical) A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
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