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Miami Showband massacre: ‘I heard my platform shoes click against each other. I still had both legs’

Posted By: July 31, 2020

Miami Showband massacre: ‘I heard my platform shoes click against each other. I still had both legs’ Stephen Travers, who survived that night 45 years ago today, now works for reconciliation Yvonne Watterson Irish Times July 31, 2020 The Miami Showband (from left): Tony Geraghty, Fran O’Toole, Ray Millar, Des McAlea (Des Lee), Brain McCory […]

EU biggest threat to Ulster Unionism

Posted By: July 31, 2020

Alex Kane. Irish News. Belfast.Friday, July 31, 2020  For most of the first 60 years or so of partition unionism had a valuable card in its deck: the Republic looked like a  political/economic minnow, with no appeal whatsoever to an emerging demographic of middle class nationalists which preferred to look east (as well as looking internally at change in Northern Ireland) rather than […]

THIS LINGERING IMPERIAL LINE ON THE MAP

Posted By: July 29, 2020

IRISH ECHO. JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2020

The Planter and the Gael fairytale is Britain’s interpretation of Irish history

Posted By: July 25, 2020

Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, July 25, 2020 Anyone who says that sport and politics do not mix has never visited this part of the world. The establishment of a new GAA club is usually local news, but the creation of a new club in east Belfast made national headlines.The club’s formation was a great sporting achievement. But while it […]

IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS INTERNET APPEAL

Posted By: July 24, 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020 Dear Irish Friend,                                                                                                 […]

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