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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]