Posted By: March 09, 2014
CAPITOL HILL. Sunday, March 9, 2014 — Irish-Americans greatly welcome the Congressional Hearing: “The Northern Ireland Peace Process Today: Attempting to Deal with the Past” before the House Subcommittee on Human Rights, Tuesday. March 11, 2014. (See Witnesses below). Fr. Sean Mc Manus, president of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus, explained: ” This will […]
Posted By: March 09, 2014
The Legacy.Febuary 24, 2014 Funded by the Community Relations Council, 104 of my colleagues were falling down round me. THE battle to defuse parades disputes in Belfast has provided lessons that have been used in trouble spots around the world. The Detail’s Barry McCaffrey examines one of the past successes, at a time when some fear that the tension caused by dissident republican […]
Posted By: March 08, 2014
http://www.irishnation.com THE WEARING OF THE GREEN The tradition of wearing Shamrock to celebrate Saint Patrick seems to date from the seventeenth or eighteenth century. This was a very turbulent time in Irish history. The suppression of the Gaelic way of life by the ruling British invaders resulted in many aspects of the Catholic religion in […]
Posted By: March 05, 2014
ALLISON MORRIS. IRISH NEWS( BELFAST). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2014. WHO did, didn’t or pretended not to know about the ‘letters of comfort’ giving around 200 IRA men and women the green light to come home has dominated the news for the last week. That most of them were already living in plain sight, making no […]
Posted By: March 05, 2014
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, March 6, 2014. HE came down the steps at Stormont Castle with a carefully chosen coterie of accomplices: Depooty Dawds, the leader of the DUP MPs, Lord Morrow, Diane Dodds – in case people had forgotten she is standing for Europe – and Michelle McIlveen for their task? To […]