Posted By: April 07, 2015
Alex Kane. letters@newsletter.co.uk Monday , April 6, 2015 With most of the candidates now declared we have a clearer picture of where the real battles are going to take place on May 7. Fermanagh/South Tyrone remains the most interesting and the unionist parties – particularly the UUP – are hoping that the high-profile Tom Elliott […]
Posted By: April 04, 2015
IRISH CENTRAL. Bill Bigelow @ZinnEdProject April 04,2015+So many textbooks overlook Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish American story. “Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing. Sadly, today’s […]
Posted By: April 04, 2015
By Gareth Gordon. BBC News. 2 April 2015 Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, pictured in 1981It is more than 30 years since Bobby Sands was elected as an MP, but where politics is concerned time stands still in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.“I think it’s very much back to 1981,” says Bernie O’Connor, who played a role […]
Posted By: April 03, 2015
Denis Bradley. Irish News ( Belfast). Friday, April 3, 2015 RECENTLY I was at the end of a blast of frustration and anger. It was not directed at me but at Peter[Robinson] and Mike[Nesbitt] and their respective unionist parties. It was a group of loyalists, many of them former members of paramilitary organisations. The gripe […]
Posted By: April 02, 2015
Here’s a nice little item from 1946— about the wishful thinking of Unionists regarding Irish-Americans. ON THIS DAY— April 2, 1946 Edited by Eamon Phoenix Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, April 2, 2015 It was unfortunate for the Northern Home Affairs Minister, Mr. Edmond Warnock, KC that Senator James Farrelly, who was US Postmaster-General […]