The week in Music

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There are two Bloody Sundays in Irish history. The first was in 1920 when British troops fired into the crowd at a football match in Dublin in retaliation for the killing of British undercover agents. The second was on January 30, 1972, when British paratroopers killed 13 Irish citizens at a civil rights protest in Derry, Northern Ireland. The song

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[katsurian]

Didn't they get some heavy criticism for playing this song on the site where it happened?

[katsurian]

My memory is faulty - the controversy was when the song was first released in 1983 and not when they played it at Croke Park.
The controversy on site was a soccer match between Ireland and England on the date a couple years ago.