Posted By: March 29, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C, OCTOBER 2 1995–The first Irish organization to ever open an Office on Capitol Hill has welcomed news that the Ulster Unionist Party is now going to open an Office in Washington D.C. The Irish National Caucus–which opened its office on Human Rights Day, December l0,1978–has said “it sees the Unionists initative as positive […]
Posted By: March 29, 2013
Sunday Business Post — August 28, 1995 Father Sean McManus, that perennial thorn in the side of everything British, reads the Style section of the Washington Post, writes Basil Miller. This nugget was revealed in a frenzied press release dated August 23 which McManus sent to news directors from his office on Capitol Hill. The […]
Posted By: March 29, 2013
Irish Echo “Ireland’s had Red Knights in times gone by but for the past two generations, it has had a White knight on Capitol Hill, Fr. Sean Mc Manus. He has fought the good fight for peace and equality at the very heart of the U.S. administration, enduring barbs and brickbats from the elites but […]
Posted By: March 29, 2013
Co-Sponsored by Irish Echo Capitol Hill. Sunday, January 10, 2011 — The Irish in the greater Washington, DC area have rallied together to form the “Washington Irish Committee” for the launching and signing of Fr. Mc Manus’s Memoirs: My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland. The Memoirs will be published in Ireland in March […]
Posted By: March 29, 2013
Capitol Hill. Thursday, March 24, 2011—“ There was a time the only way Fr. Mc Manus would have gotten into Dublin Castle was in chains, in the dungeon.” Thus spoke an Irish-American journalist when told Fr Mc Manus would be launching and signing his newly published Memoirs in Dublin Castle on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 […]