Posted By: June 22, 2020
Winston Churchill is either revered or loathed, but it always important to consider his history in Ireland during such discussions. James O’Shea @IrishCentral Jun 17, 2020 A statue of Winston Churchill in London was defaced during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7, 2020. Getty Images Winston Churchill is divisive; he’s either revered […]
Posted By: June 20, 2020
On This Day [in history]By Eamonn PhoenixIrish News, Saturday, June 20, 2020Minority VoiceAnti-Unionist candidates scored a resounding treble at the General Election when the redoubtable pair, Gerry Fitt and Bernadette Devlin, were returned to Westminster with increased majorities and Frank McManus became the new Member for Fermanagh-South Tyrone at the expense of the outgoing Unionist. This is now the most formidable anti-Unionist representation ever to […]
Posted By: June 20, 2020
Bernice Albertine King in audience with Pope Francis, 12 March 2018 Just after Freedom Day, celebrated by African Americans with particular emotion after the killing of George Floyd, Martin Luther King’s daughter reflects with Vatican Media on the nonviolent battle for equality and underlines the particular harmony between Pope Francis and her father. By […]
Posted By: June 19, 2020
Gerry Adams, the former president of Sinn Féin, offers his condolences on the passing of Jean Kennedy Smith, the former US Ambassador to Ireland.IrishCentral Staff@IrishCentral Friday, June 19, 2020 Gerry Adams recalls the “pivotal” role Jean Kennedy Smith played in the Northern Ireland peace process.Editor’s Note: Jean Kennedy Smith, the former US Ambassador to Ireland, passed away in New York this week at the […]
Posted By: June 17, 2020
This is the extreme right-wing, fascist, racist/sectarian and anti-Catholic pathology that England ‘ carefully fostered’ in Ireland for centuries, and upon which England created Northern Ireland by its 1920 Government of Ireland Act. Collusion. Collusion. Collusion.”—Fr. Sean McManus https://ulsterherald.com/2020/06/15/loyalists-take-the-knee-poster-incitement-to-hatred/ Loyalists’ take the knee poster ‘incitement to hatred’ By Michael McGlade. Ulster Herald. Monday, June 15, 2020m.mcglade@ulsterherald.com@McGladeMLOYALISTS […]