Posted By: June 15, 2014
My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland Fr. Sean McManus Irish National Caucus, Inc. PO Box 15128, Washington, DC 20003-0849 9781469934839, $30.00, www.irishnationalcaucus.org Ireland has had a rocky road throughout much of recent history. Expanding on the original Irish edition, “My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland” discusses the role of American […]
Posted By: June 15, 2014
An ‘Irish Times’ report from 1977 has helped confirm that two trainee teachers were not to blame for the Belfast shootings in which one of them died Victim: trainee teacher Patrick Magee GERRY MORIARTY. IRISH TIMES. Friday, June 13, 2014. The 6pm angelus bell was ringing at St Peter’s Cathedral in west Belfast […]
Posted By: June 14, 2014
Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, June 12, 2014 POLITICS here are not working because we have the wrong peace process. How does that grab you as an explanation for stormont turning out to be something of a political hoax? (the sound of you choking on your cornflakes suggests that it is unlikely […]
Posted By: June 14, 2014
Noel Whelan. Friday, June 13, 2014. I have been wrong about Sinn Féin in the past. I have tended to be premature in predicting its electoral rise. Just over a decade ago, when Sinn Féin had five TDs and its leaders enjoyed heightened celebrity at the centre of the Northern Ireland peace process, I speculated […]
Posted By: June 14, 2014
Keith Duggan. Irish Times. Friday, June 13, 2014. The occasion is enshrined by the full-time score rather than the date: “Ireland 1, Italy 0” has the power to send a generation of Irish people back to an afternoon 20 years ago, when the national soccer team somehow beat the Italians in the now-razed Giants Stadium, in New […]