Daily Archives: February 10, 2012

McCartney’s ‘Give Ireland Back to the Irish’ banned in Britain 40 years ago today (1972)

(Thursday, February 10, 1972) — 12 days after British paratroopers shot dead thirteen Catholics after a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry in what is known as Bloody Sunday, Paul McCartney’s new single Give Ireland Back to the Irish was banned on British airwaves (it would still be released Feb. 25, 1972).