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PRAISE FOR MEMOIRS AND FOR FR. McMANUS’ Work

Posted By: May 19, 2020

FOR ORDERING THE MEMOIRS, SEE THE DETAILS AT THE END OF QUOTATIONS. “Thus, McManus became Britain’s nemesis in America, the driving force that would eventually erode Britain’s influence within the U.S. government.”—Joseph E. Thompson. American Policy and Northern Ireland: A Saga of Peacebuilding. 2001. “The Mac Bride Principles—a corporate code of conduct for American companies […]

After coronavirus fiasco, Britain’s international reputation is in tatters

Posted By: May 17, 2020

Patrick Murphy.Irish News. Belfast.Saturday, May 16, 2020 If the 1918 Spanish flu marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire (with help from Ireland’s War for Independence), the coronavirus appears likely to mark the end of Britain as a major international player.Indeed as the Irish, Scots and Welsh distance themselves from England’s chaotic pandemic management, it may even mark the end […]

Joe Biden’s love letter to his Irish roots revealed

Posted By: May 17, 2020

The presumptive Democratic nominee’s Irish ancestors emigrated from Ireland in the 1800s, and Biden has never shied away from his Irish roots.IrishCentral Staff@IrishCentral May 17, 2020 Shortly before going to Ireland as U.S. Vice President in 2016, Joe Biden penned a letter for Ancestry.com revealing how much the trip meant to him. The presumptive Democratic nominee’s Irish ancestors emigrated from Ireland in the […]

FR. McMANUS SELECTED AS CHIEF JUDGE

Posted By: May 16, 2020

Succeeds former Congressman Lester Wolff Seoul. South Korea. Friday, October 24, 2013 — The President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus, who traveled to Seoul to be sworn- in as one of twelve Judges on the World Peace Prize Awarding Council has, instead, been sworn-in as the Chief Judge. This followed the resignation […]