Poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wake-of-bloody-sunday/
"Eamon Cassidy, 49,
offered no plea and was ordered held without bail over his alleged role in
planting a 100-pound (45-kilogram) car bomb across the street from the
courthouse in Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second-largest city, in March 2011.”
The story that I read was about a Northern Irish man by the name of Eamon
Cassidy who is being accused of planting a 100 pound bomb across the road from
a courthouse is Londonderry. Though the attempted bombing happened in 2011 the
police have finally tracked him down. The prosecutor explained how Cassidy was
found: "A prosecutor said Tuesday that police linked Cassidy to the
attempted courthouse bombing by collecting his DNA following his September
arrest and matching it to DNA traces found inside the car bearing the
courthouse bomb."
This story connects to the poem
"The Wake of Bloody Sunday" by Liam ó Comáin. The poem is about
the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday massacre that happened in Ireland in 1972.
In the poem ó Comáin says: "A city sobs. A nation weeps. Because of a people’s
loss." This is talking about how Ireland reacted to the tragic happening
on Bloody Sunday. This poem relates to the story because the poem talks about
an Irish tragedy while if this bomb went off it would have been an Irish
tragedy. Thankfully the bomb didn't go off and Cassidy is in jail now, but if
the bomb went off it could have been another situation similar to Bloody
Sunday.
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