Posted By: March 17, 2019
Fr. McManus on Faux Shock About Mary Lou and “ England Get Out of Ireland”Banner Not only that but using “England” as distinct from Britain makes the point that Wales and Scotland can hardly be blamed for the mistreatment and later in 1920 for the partition of Ireland. Furthermore, there is no way the Unionists/Protestants […]
Posted By: March 17, 2019
Fintan O’Toole. Irish Times. Dublin. Saturday, March 16, 2019The British prime minister doesn’t cut it as a tragic figure. Instead, stuck in Brexit chaos partly of her own making, she has had the overweening ambition of a mini-MacbethTheresa May always made much of her devotion to the cricketer Geoffrey Boycott. She campaigned unsuccessfully for the former England and Yorkshire batsman to […]
Posted By: March 17, 2019
Bill Bigelow @IrishCentral. March 17, 2019 A family who’ve been evicted from their home in Ireland by the British. NLI Sadly, today’s corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about the poverty and inequality that drove the famine than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants “Wear green on St. […]
Posted By: March 16, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “The recklessness of Brexit wreaks havoc in every direction, poisoning the body politic, and pulling scabs off old wounds. The surge of right-wing English nationalism that animates Brexit has never given a thought to Ireland, North or South—and certainly not to the idea of The Beloved […]
Posted By: March 16, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Bloody Sunday was about the murderous strategy of British Government to militarize the situation:to drive the massive Civil Rights Movement off the streets; to twist the issue from being about justice and equality into one of fighting terrorism; and to portray the murderous British Army […]
