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 […]
Posted By: August 20, 2016
Obituary. Irish News (Belfast).Saturday, August 20, 2016 On November 11 , 1968, brothers Robin and James Chichester-Clark met in the library of their ancestral estate at Moyola Park, Co Derry.With Robin writing on his knee, they drew up a list of reforms for housing, voting and local government.It was Armistice Day, and just a month since a civil rights march […]
Posted By: August 19, 2016
“I am delighted this film documentary is doing so well in Ireland, North and South. I am honored to be in it. And I am so pleased that Bobby Sands has the last word, rendering the Maggie Thatcher government guilty for its cruelty, sectarianism and racism— the foundation stone of historic English rule in Ireland.This […]
Posted By: August 18, 2016
Raymond Mc Cord Deborah McAleese. Belfast Telegraph. Thursday, August 18, 2016Raymond McCord and DUP MLA Paul Frew have clashed over the rights and wrongs of granting legal aid for Mr McCord’s challenge to June’s EU referendumA decision to grant legal aid to a victims’ campaigner to challenge Brexit has been labelled inappropriate.Raymond McCord, whose son was murdered by the […]