Posted By: August 07, 2016
STEPHEN CASTLEAUG.New Youk Times. Saturday, August 6, 2016Pat Cox, a former president of the European Parliament, at home in Blackrock, Dublin. Mr. Cox said membership in the European Union had played a crucial role in strengthening relations between Ireland and Britain. Credit Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York TimesDUNDALK, Ireland — Gerard McEvoy’s daily commute across the border between […]
Posted By: August 07, 2016
“I am honOred to be in this film, explaining the American reaction to the 1981 hunger strike of Bobby Sands and his nine colleagues. I was not expecting this film to be so very powerful.It is extraordinary and excellent.Very emotional, yet very balanced. A work of art and of history— maybe, even a work of […]
Posted By: August 07, 2016
As is now known, Fr. Mc Manus is interviewed in this film about the American reaction to Bobby Sands hunger strike. Fr. Mc Manus fasted for twelve days outside the British Embassy in Washington in solidarity with Sands. The film itself is superb, entirely excellent and Oscar-worthy. Every good Irish-American should see it when it […]
Posted By: August 04, 2016
Dr Pat Walsh. Irish News.(Belfast). Thursday, August 4, 2016 Ignoring the vitriol in Robert McNamara’s review of Catastrophe and Resurgence: The Catholic Predicament in Northern Ireland (July 28) let me get straight to the point. Dr McNamara ridicules my argument that Britain established “an arena for communal conflict in the Six Counties that it hoped […]
Posted By: August 03, 2016
Recently, First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster criticized Fr. Sean Mc Manus for saying that —despite progress in Northern Ireland— there is still deep anti-Catholic bigotry. Now comes this letter in the Belfast Telegraph —still often referred to as the “ main Protestant paper” in Northern Ireland— that seems to validate Fr. Mc […]