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BOBBY SANDS FILM VALIDATES THE IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS

Posted By: August 23, 2016

Dear Irish Friend, I have the honor of being in the critically acclaimed film documentary “Bobby Sands: 66 Days, [66daysthefilm.com]” now showing in Ireland, and soon to be showing in the United States. It is not yet on video/DVD. It is a powerful, factual and moving explanation as to why Bobby Sands and his nine […]

Bobby Sands: 66 Days

Posted By: August 23, 2016

  Paddy Kehoe   RTE        Aug. 4, 2016 11:24   Bobby Sands: the last days of his life are powerfully portrayed in 66 Days. Director Brendan J Byrne Starring There are moments of terrible sadness in 66 Days, Brendan J Byrne’s profoundly moving account of Bobby Sands’ hunger strike in the so-called H Blocks […]

Film to cast new light on massacre

Posted By: August 23, 2016

News & Views / August 22, 2016 / By Evan Short     At the event in St. Mary’s University College in Belfast headlined “Lessons from the Loughinisland Massacre” are (l-r) solicitor Niall Murphy, journalist Barry McCaffrey, and Mark Thompson of Relatives for Justice.By Evan Short. Irish Echo. Monday, August 22, 2016A film documentary by an Oscar winning director is set to bring […]

Time for some green-sky thinking

Posted By: August 21, 2016

Fr. Sean McManus, who founded the Irish National Caucus to lobby the US Congress in 1974, has spent more than forty years observing the evolution of US-Irish relations at very close quarters. He recalls when congressional hearings on Northern Ireland were banned, a position that remained through the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations, despite strenuous […]

Revolution? More like call for change

Posted By: August 20, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, August 20, 2016Oh good, there is going to be a revolution. Britain’s Socialist Party has suggested as much, so it must be true. “The lava of this revolution is still hot,” the party says, which would tempt you to suggest that its members might like to get out more.I am not sure if the revolution will […]

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