Posted By: April 17, 2017
UTV.Belfast Sunday, April 16, 2017 Brexit has placed Irish unity back on the political agenda almost a century on from the partition, Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has told her party’s Easter Rising commemoration.Delivering the annual oration at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin on the 101st anniversary of the rebellion, the republican party’s Stormont leader said the UK’s departure from the European Union despite […]
Posted By: April 17, 2017
Senan Molony @IrishCentralApril 14, 2017 (* Originally published in 2012). Kate Gilnagh: Longford woman lied, when she finally gained access to the upper deck, and said her sister was on board lifeboat 16.On April 14, 1914, off Newfoundland, the White Star Line ship, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg. In the early hours of April 15, the Belfast-built Titanic […]
Posted By: April 16, 2017
Spicer, Pence, Bannon — not since JFK have the Irish had such power in the White House. This team would do better if they remembered their roots.Clive Irving. The Daily Beast. April, 14, 2017The sorry spectacle of Sean Spicer apologizing for suggesting that Hitler never gassed anybody has shown an essential but easily missed rule about the use of history: Those whose […]
Posted By: April 14, 2017
Suzanne McGonagle. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, April 13, 2017ONE of the Guildford Four has described his struggles following his release from prison – and how he has come out the other side.Wrongly convicted and imprisoned for 15 years, Paddy Armstrong was one of four people jailed for the Guildford pub bombing in England in 1975.Almost 30 years after his release, the Belfast-born […]
Posted By: April 13, 2017
Suzanne McGonagle. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, April 13, 2017ONE of the Guildford Four has described his struggles following his release from prison – and how he has come out the other side.Wrongly convicted and imprisoned for 15 years, Paddy Armstrong was one of four people jailed for the Guildford pub bombing in England in 1975.Almost 30 years after his release, the Belfast-born […]
