Britain’s Bloody Sunday Deniers
On the afternoon of Sunday the 30th of January 1972 soldiers from the British Parachute Regiment, one of the more fearsomeContinue Reading
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New Revelations Over The British Army’s “Special Duties” In Ireland
On the morning of the 15th of December 1920, at the height of the Irish war of independence, four menContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And The Labour Party, Or Integrity Meets Avarice
To misquote a terrible old bigot who had a way with words, most political controversies end not with a bang but with a whimper. ThatContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Sees Enemies To The Left, Enemies To The Right, Enemies All Around
Talking of the press conference by Bobby Storey, the Sinn Féin northern chairperson, here are the words of the deputy firstContinue Reading
The Existence Of The IRA As A Guarantor Of Peace
Of the many, many tens of thousands of Irish people who have suffered hardship at the hands of the UK state inContinue Reading
Provisional IRA Not On A War Footing
Two days have passed since I criticised the risible scaremongering amongst sections of the domestic and UK press, as well asContinue Reading
The Reality Of Cold War Politics In The North-East Of Ireland
From 1995 to 2001 an organisation calling itself Direct Action Against Drugs, or DAAD, was involved in a series ofContinue Reading
The Reorganisation Of The IRA In The Early 1970s
Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney, now resident in New York, has an interesting article over on his Broken ElbowContinue Reading
The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed examination of the British Army’sContinue Reading
The National Flag Of Ireland Flies Over Stormont
The Green, White and Orange flies over the north-east’s regional assembly building at Stormont. We are living in the end days ofContinue Reading
Britain’s Army Of Serial Killers In Ireland
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
LGBT Rights In Ireland Cannot Be Partitioned
No doubt most of you are aware that the referendum proposing the addition of a gender-neutral description of marriageContinue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
The So-Called Irish Press
The meaning of the English idiom “so-called” is generally given as, “So named; called by such a name, with a veryContinue Reading
Channel 4 News On The Kincora Boys Home Scandal
I’ve used the platform presented by An Sionnach Fionn to discuss the Kincora Boys Home scandal on many occasions in theContinue Reading
No British Justice, No Irish Peace
Couple of things brought to my attention. The first is the case of Christy Walsh, a citizen of thisContinue Reading
Britain’s Tribal Grudges Risks Renewed Conflict In Ireland
The Irish have made peace but have the British? That is the question asked by veteran journalist and author EdContinue Reading
Would Sinn Féin Support Naomi Long In East Belfast?
Following on from my post yesterday examining the announcement that the DUP and UUP will be supporting agreed candidates in four key constituencies for the WestminsterContinue Reading
30 Years On And Britain Maintains The Kincora Boys Home Cover-Up
In my last post highlighting the demands from campaigners in Ireland that the British authorities in the north-east of the countryContinue Reading
DUP and UUP Agree Candidates For Pan-Unionist Axis
So the blog We In Coming Days got there first with the headline-grabbing news that the main British Unionist partiesContinue Reading
Jean McConville, Gerry Adams And The Truth
The New Yorker magazine has a long, if occasionally flawed, investigation into the 1972 detention and execution – which one can alternativelyContinue Reading
Bill O’Reilly And America’s Reporting Of The Troubles
Do you remember the days when editors and producers working in the newsrooms of New York, Washington or Los AngelesContinue Reading
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