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Catholics now outnumber Protestants in Belfast

Posted By: April 21, 2014

  Martina Purdy. BBC News.  Northern Ireland Political Correspondent Belfast is a city in transition, a divided city, divided by walls and divided even by the River Lagan. On the east bank there is a largely unionist population, and on the west, a solidly nationalist and Catholic one, with significant sections of unionists in the north and […]

My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland

Posted By: April 19, 2014

Shelia Langan. Irish America. June/July, 2012. In My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland, Fr. Sean McManus tells an important and highly personal account of his years of lobbying and non-violent protest on Capitol Hill in his mission to achieve justice in Northern Ireland. McManus, who founded the National Irish Caucus in 1974 and […]

Living in America, Ending Injustice in Ireland

Posted By: April 19, 2014

Book Review: My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland Joe Martin. Real Change Newspaper.Oct 26, 2011, Vol: 18, No: 41 In 1963 South African politician Belthazar Johannes Vorster looked longingly at Northern Ireland’s vicious Special Powers Act, a draconian law aimed at the Catholic minority. Vorster, who would become president of South Africa’s cruel, racially […]

NORTH’S PROBLEM IS THE RULERS WE HAVE ELECTED

Posted By: April 19, 2014

NEWTON EMERSON. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, April 19, 2014 Like the queen, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers does not make major statements without the imprimatur of the UK government. So her keynote speech this week means the government believes Stormont must “evolve” towards a “formal opposition” that preserves power-sharing while allowing voters to “remove […]

CULTURAL UNIONISM A RECENT INVENTION

Posted By: April 19, 2014

Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday,April 19, 2014. WHAT used to be the theory of evolution is now scientific fact – living things which do not adapt to environmental change tend to die out. So how, you ask, has Unionism survived? (You can be so insensitive at times.) Since 1609 unionism has remained largely […]

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