Posted By: January 11, 2020
Diarmaid Ferriter: The terrorizing Black and Tans had no monopoly on brutality in 1920 Diarmaid Ferriter. Irish Times. Dublin. Saturday, January 4, 2020 (Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD and an Irish Times columnist) Black & Tans guarding Dublin street after a shooting on Gloucester Road. One of […]
Posted By: January 10, 2020
Mary Lou McDonald said the party is ‘ready to do business’ and get back to workFreya McClements, Vivienne Clarke, Jennifer Bray.Irish Times. Dublin. Friday, January 10, 2020 Sinn Fein’s Ard Comhairle has taken the decision to re-enter the power-sharing institutions and to nominate ministers to the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland, the party’s president Mary Lou McDonald has told reporters at a […]
Posted By: January 10, 2020
Monegasque princess removed from British line of succession for becoming CatholicCatholic News Agency.Monaco, October 1, 2018 Princess Alexandra of Hanover, a member of the royal family of Monaco, has reportedly been removed from her distant place in the British line of succession after having become a Catholic.The news was reported in English Sept. 27 by Royal Central, which cited Point […]
Posted By: January 09, 2020
Irish Central. New York City. Thursday, January 9, 2020 The popular Irish rebel song has seen a meteoric boost in popularity in the wake of the controversy surrounding a planned RIC / DMP commemoration in Dublin for January 17, which was ultimately “deferred” by the Irish government after scores of Irish politicians as well […]
Posted By: January 09, 2020
“Thus, Mc Manus became Britain’s nemesis in America, the driving force that would eventually erode Britain’s influence within the U.S. government.”—Joseph E. Thompson. American Policy and Northern Ireland: A Saga of Peacebuilding. 2001. “Fr. Sean McManus is the man who put Northern Ireland on the map in America. As head of Washington-based lobby […]