Posted By: April 23, 2014
Andersonstown News ( Belfast). Tuesday, April 22, 2014. By Francesca Ryan ALOCAL woman whose mother was gunned down by the British Army in Ballymurphy confronted British Secretary of State Theresa Villiers yesterday over her comments that state murders should be given less emphasis than murders by paramilitaries. Briege Voyle was one of a number […]
Posted By: April 21, 2014
Tom Kelly. Irish News ( Belfast). Monday, April 21, 2014 AS ANOTHER easter sunday passes and as various republican groups and splinter organisations complete their commemorations at graveyards across the country, we are treated to the annual gritty blather and blarney from an array of former comrades about the usefulness of “blood sacrifice” and […]
Posted By: April 21, 2014
Martina Purdy. BBC News. Northern Ireland Political Correspondent Belfast is a city in transition, a divided city, divided by walls and divided even by the River Lagan. On the east bank there is a largely unionist population, and on the west, a solidly nationalist and Catholic one, with significant sections of unionists in the north and […]
Posted By: April 19, 2014
Shelia Langan. Irish America. June/July, 2012. In My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland, Fr. Sean McManus tells an important and highly personal account of his years of lobbying and non-violent protest on Capitol Hill in his mission to achieve justice in Northern Ireland. McManus, who founded the National Irish Caucus in 1974 and […]
Posted By: April 19, 2014
Book Review: My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland Joe Martin. Real Change Newspaper.Oct 26, 2011, Vol: 18, No: 41 In 1963 South African politician Belthazar Johannes Vorster looked longingly at Northern Ireland’s vicious Special Powers Act, a draconian law aimed at the Catholic minority. Vorster, who would become president of South Africa’s cruel, racially […]