Posted By: August 27, 2016
President was right to speak of the need to recognise the atrocities committed by both sides Diarmaid Ferriter. Irish Times. Saturday, August 27, 2016 Some of those organising history discussions and conferences for the autumn are keen to keep the conversation about the 1916 centenary going, but with a twist. Next month’s Dublin Festival of History, for example, will host a […]
Posted By: August 27, 2016
“The Belfast Telegraph — historically no champion of justice and equality for Catholics in Northern Ireland— is reporting in the article below that 66 Days has become ‘ a box office hit and one of the most lucrative Northern Irish film ever.’ I am so pleased Bobby Sands has the last word. His sacrifice —and […]
Posted By: August 26, 2016
“Unionists have in the main failed to acknowledge the potential game-changer Brexit is, how it has changed the very nature, the metaphysical character of the United Kingdom, and its profound implications for the current settlement in Northern Ireland which has been predicated on EU membership and a growing all-Ireland economy within the context of an invisible border and a path towards eventual unity if […]
Posted By: August 25, 2016
Éamon Phoenix. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, August 25, 2016NORTHERN Ireland secretary Peter Brooke said implementing the 1989 Fair Employment Act was “crucial to the success of all our NI policies”, declassified files show.In December 1989 he wrote to his predecessor Tom King, then secretary of state for defense, reminding him that he and cabinet colleagues had a responsibility in their departments to […]
Posted By: August 25, 2016
The success in the US of the MacBride Principles played a key role in a new Fair Employment Act in 1989 Éamon Phoenix. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, August 25, 2016Seán MacBrideTHE success of the campaign for the MacBride Principles in the US encouraged the British government to introduce a new Fair Employment Act in 1989.Named after Nobel […]