Posted By: June 26, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) one of the most eminent English historians explained how England used the Bible in its genocidal, racist, and —after the English Reformation— anti-Catholic oppression of Ireland.Sadly, today there is still a residue of that deep-seated anti-Catholic bigotry in a significant section […]
Posted By: June 26, 2018
Michael McLoughlin Dungannon Councilor 1967-1993. Letters to Editor.Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, June 26, 2018Seamus McKinney’s article (June 18) on the ‘trigger’ impact of the 1968 Caledon ‘Squat’ on the 1968 Civil Rights Campaign is a factual account of the incident, a rehearsal of a well-told ‘story’ but the account misses the point that to use a biblical analogy, the incident was […]
Posted By: June 25, 2018
Irish Congressional Briefing Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus The Irish Times view on the cash-for-ash scandal: Breathtaking incompetenceWhen she was a minister in Stormont, Arlene Foster introduced the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme regulations and had it passed by the Northern Assembly. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire Irish Times. Editorial. Dublin. Monday, June 25, 2018. The litany of […]
Posted By: June 23, 2018
RISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “Ever since the 1920 British Government of Ireland Act —which artificially created a pro-British majority by ripping the Six Counties of Northern Ireland away from the other 26 Counties of Ireland— the British Government and the Unionists/Loyalist/Protestants have defended this gerrymander by claiming the ‘majority wanted it.’ […]
Posted By: June 22, 2018
James O’Shea @IrishCentral Thursday, June 21, 2018 On this day, June 21, in 1877, the execution of the Molly Maguires began. It was the largest mass execution of any group by the US federal government in history. Between 1877 and 1879, 20 Irishmen known as the Molly Maguires, a labor movement working and organizing […]