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Belfast: Movie magic meets stark reality in Kenneth Branagh’s tale of a childhood during Northern Ireland’s Troubles

Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical Oscars contender Belfast views The Troubles of Northern Ireland through the prism of childhood innocence and movie magic.

ABC News

Taoiseach to meet cross-community group over opposition to legacy plans

The Truth and Justice Movement will travel to Dublin to meet Micheal Martin.

The Independent UK

Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary: Taoiseach Micheal Martin calls on British Government not to proceed with Troubles killings amnesty

Mr Martin added that 'legacy issues' need to be addressed and so there cannot be an amnesty

Irish Mirror

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Northern Ireland marks 50 years since Bloody Sunday

Relatives of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday are marching in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles

The Independent UK

‘I grew up with Branagh in Belfast: our childhoods haunt his new film’

The director’s cousin Martin Hamilton tells of family and the Troubles that went on to inspire an acclaimed memoir

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Bloody Sunday anniversary: the legacy remains

Editorial: Even 50 years later, the killings in Derry in 1972 cast a long shadow over Britain’s policies in Northern Ireland

The Guardian - UK

Bloody Sunday: What happened on 30 January 1972 and what did the Saville Inquiry conclude in 2010?

Mass shooting of Catholic demonstrators in Derry by British paratroopers, perhaps the defining episode of the Troubles, remembered 50 years on

The Independent UK

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Bloody Sunday 50 years later: what it means when we commemorate trauma

At its heart, Bloody Sunday was a devastating personal tragedy involving the deaths of 13 men and boys, six of whom were only 17 years old. The victims were taking part in a civil rights protest march against internment. In 30 minutes, 21 soldiers from the British Army’s parachute regiment…

The Conversation

Photographing Bloody Sunday: the complex legacy of the Troubles' most iconic images

On January 30 1972, dozens of photographers arrived in Derry, Northern Ireland, to cover a protest march against internment without trial. The day’s events turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire. The photographers ended up capturing on film one of the most significant events of the Troubles – Bloody Sunday.

The Conversation

Londoner’s Diary: Jamie Dornan checked for bombs under dad’s car during Troubles

In today’s Diary: Dornan on Belfast / Damp in the country house / More raunch, promises Olly / Dame Julie and the corpsing / Sue Gray report ‘will see light of day’

Evening Standard

‘I got really lucky’: Caitríona Balfe, star of Belfast, on fame, family and fans

Caitríona Balfe is the luminous star of Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-tipped Belfast. She talks about how modelling almost broke her, bonding on set with Judi Dench and her childhood during the Troubles

The Guardian - UK

Belfast review – Branagh’s chocolate box vision of his childhood

Kenneth Branagh’s monochrome film of growing up in 60s Northern Ireland offers nostalgia but avoids getting to grips with the Troubles

The Guardian - UK

Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe reflect on revisiting The Troubles for 'Belfast'

“Anything that can prove that there are no winners at the end of all that is good for the next generation to see"

Belfast Live

Jamie Dornan on growing up in Belfast during the Troubles: ‘There are no winners at the end’

‘I always think back to stuff that became normal, that was not normal,’ actor recalled

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Belfast film review: A film about the Troubles that isn’t about the Troubles at all

The celebrated director’s twinkly-eyed childhood memoir chooses not to reckon with reality

The Conversation

Belfast – archiving all the voices of the Troubles

Kenneth Branagh’s latest semi-autobiographical film, Belfast, is set in Northern Ireland in 1969 and explores the “social and political tumult” in the buildup to the Troubles. The “affectionate portrait” of nine-year-old Buddy lies at the centre of this film, critic Robbie Meredith noted. Yet as violence begins to escalate between…

The Independent UK

British Government has ‘dragged its feet for too long’ on legacy issues – Martin

British soldiers involved in atrocities such as Bloody Sunday and the Ballymurphy massacre should ‘be brought to justice’, the Taoiseach said.

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