Places and forms of Power Northern Ireland

I am going to talk about the notion “Places and forms of power” and more precisely places where art allowed to liberate the habitants. First, I would like to give a definition of every keywords.

So, places could be important buildings or institutions which represent a certain form of power or a symbol of power.

The power is the ability or capacity to exercise control and authority. It can be also a person, a group or a nation having great influence or control over others. There can be good or bad types of power and in this notion, there are a division between people who have the power and people who suffer the power, which are controlled or influenced.

We will ask ourselves how art liberated Irish people.

At first, I think it’s important to talk about the historical context and then I am going to talk about the documents that I chose. Finally, I am gone give my conclusion.

I- The historical context:

So, Ireland belonged to the United Kingdom for a long time but there was an opposition. Many where angry, they didn’t agree with them and they wanted independence. This was successful because the British were busy with World War 1. After the war Ireland got independence and become the republic of Ireland. But in Northern Ireland there was a large protestant community which wanted to remain with the UK. This caused a large conflict between Catholics and Protestants called “The troubles”.

“The troubles” started in 1968 and finished in 1998. It’s a period of conflict between two Irish communities: Republicans and loyalists. Some protests indeed in tragedy like “bloody Sunday” in 1972. In which the British army shot and killed protestants. Originally the British army was sent in to keep peace, but it didn’t happen that way.

II – The documents:

My first document is a picture of Dylan Wilson who plays in front of the mural that shows him with the grand-daughter of a former republican. The poem was written by Dylan’s grand-father, Jim Wilson, o former loyalist. She was taking in 2008. We can say that this picture is a tribute for his grand-father. Otherwise the mural is a message of peace, it represents the peace between republicans and loyalists and this poem which is called “No more” is a promise to stop having war.

The second document is a movie which is called “In the name of my father” realized by Jim Sheridan. It’s an adaption of the book “Proved innocent” Written by Gerry Conlon.

It’s a true story which chronicles a miscarriage of justice for a group of friends who was accuse for a bombing they never did because the police who make him sign false confessions to find a culprit. His father who was in prison too die in it. At the end of the movie Gerry was acquitted.

I think that this movie prove that the violence was at its peak during the troubles and that the United Kingdom was not objective in his judgement which caused many misfortunes. The book and the movie were made to give an example of many injustice having taken a place during the troubles.

And finally, the document that I choose is a song of the rock band U2 which is called “Sunday bloody Sunday”. It refers to this incident, near Belfast in Northern

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