Prime Minister Theresa May Supports Clandestine Amnesty For War Crimes In Ireland
In an unprecedented move the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, has launched a stinging attack on law officials who areContinue Reading
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In an unprecedented move the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, has launched a stinging attack on law officials who areContinue Reading
Since the effective end of the conflict in the north-east of Ireland, the so-called Irish-British Troubles, a few inquisitive elements ofContinue Reading
Bob Stewart, a Conservative MP in London and a former military commander, has blithely admitted that he acted as “…a kind of aContinue Reading
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and theContinue Reading
If the long-delayed findings of Britain’s Iraq Inquiry, led from 2009 to 2011 by senior civil servant Sir John Chilcot, have driven a stake through the political legacy ofContinue Reading
With informed observers, including lawyers, journalists and politicians, already predicting a whitewash there seems little hope that Britain is ready to faceContinue Reading
“It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer.” Irish Republican motto* WelcomeContinue Reading
On the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1974, as rush-hour commuters made their way through Dublin’s city-centre, three car-bombs explodedContinue Reading
For several hundred years the British, in one form or another, have been violently attempting to occupy and annex theContinue Reading
The Daily Beast, under a typically sensationalist headline, “Why Did The IRA Assassinate This American?“, details in a rather selective manner theContinue Reading
Just after 12 o’clock on the afternoon of Easter Monday, the 24th of April 1916, Patrick H. Pearse and his revolutionary colleagues were escortedContinue Reading
From NBC News, an article by Chandra Thomas Whitfield examining the influence of the African-American civil rights movement on its IrishContinue Reading
2016 may be the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and some journalists employed by the main titles ofContinue Reading
From two newspaper articles over the last twenty-four hours. The Derry Journal reporting on the opinions held in 1972 by the BritishContinue Reading
Mhairi Black MP, the left-wing political poster-child of the SNP, writing in Scotland’s pro-independence National newspaper, explaining her opposition toContinue Reading
From the legendary investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, a series of articles written for the New Statesman magazine in May 1984, describingContinue Reading
On the afternoon of Sunday the 30th of January 1972 soldiers from the British Parachute Regiment, one of the more fearsomeContinue Reading
In the early hours of the 24th of October 1990 several volunteers of the Derry Brigade of the (Provisional) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
On the morning of the 15th of December 1920, at the height of the Irish war of independence, four menContinue Reading
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading
On the 13th of January 1921 a number of British soldiers manning a vehicle-checkpoint on O’Connell Bridge, the main river-crossingContinue Reading