Death Squad Britain – The Past That Won’t Stay Hidden
Regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn will know how many times we have examined in detail the activities of Britain’sContinue Reading
Tag: British Occupied North of Ireland
From Drogue Grenades To IRAMs
There are a couple of recent articles in the At War blog of the New York Times that are quiteContinue Reading
British Terrorism In Ireland – A Return To War?
At the start of the summer rumours began to circulate in media and political circles that factions of the BritishContinue Reading
The North-East Of Ireland: Convergence
The Irish blogger “Endgame In Ulster” asks why is the political establishment of the British Unionist community in the north-eastContinue Reading
Ireland’s 800 Year Culture War
Recently a trilingual Danish acquaintance of mine, somewhat familiar with Ireland, asked me why is it that most of theContinue Reading
NI21 – Or NI1921?
People are speculating that the newest “moderate” British Unionist party to be announced on Thursday by Basil McCrea and JohnContinue Reading
A Fake Economy In A Fake State
The benefits of Britain’s continued colonial rule over the north-east of Ireland? Fake shops for a fake economy. From theContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Troubles
Interesting revelation from court documents released in Belfast (via the Detail), where Ciarán Martin, the former Security and Intelligence adviserContinue Reading
Margaret Thatcher – She Came, She Saw, She Failed
As a citizen of Ireland there is only one Margaret Thatcher that I remember. From the archives of the GuardianContinue Reading
More Accounts Of Death Squad Britain
Veteran Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney and his colleague Bob Mitchell continue their investigations into the Military Reaction Force (MRF), a British ArmyContinue Reading
Unionism Closes Ranks
Interesting to note that the DUP leader Peter Robinson and UUP leader Mike Nesbitt have agreed a joint “Unionist Unity”Continue Reading
Britain’s War In Ireland – Learning The Lessons
The Irish journalist and author Finian Cunningham examines the conflict in the north-east of Ireland during the late 1960s andContinue Reading
The McGurk Bar Massacre – British Bombers In Irish Cities
Two reviews of the ground-breaking investigative book “The McGurk’s Bar Bombing: Collusion, Cover–Up and a Campaign for Truth” by the Irish author and campaigner CiaránContinue Reading
Counter-Gangs – The Origins Of British Terrorism In Ireland
I’ve devoted considerable space on An Sionnach Fionn to cataloguing Britain’s dirty war in Ireland highlighting a wide range of evidence gatheredContinue Reading
The Ballot-Box And Petrol-Bomb – Unionism In Action
The best of British – in Ireland.
“Northern Ireland” 48% Protestant, 47% British – So Why Is Ireland Still Partitioned?
Several weeks ago the elected members of Belfast City Council voted by a majority to end the year-round flying of the BritishContinue Reading
Fantasy Troubles Part 4
In the aftermath of the publication of the de Silva report into the assassination of the Irish civil rights lawyerContinue Reading
Death Squad Britain
Two weeks ago the British prime minister, David Cameron, apologised in the UK parliament on behalf of the British nation for the assassination of the Irish civil rights lawyerContinue Reading
People Power – Taking Back The North
Sometimes the sheer two-faced hypocrisy of the average Unionist media sympathiser leaves one dumbfounded. And none more so than theContinue Reading
Named And Shamed – The Faces Of Britain’s Death Squads In Ireland
Following the report by the former UN war crimes investigator, Sir Desmond da Silva, into the 1989 assassination of the Irish human rights lawyerContinue Reading
Pat Finucane – A Victim Of Britain’s State-Sponsored Terrorism In Ireland
On the 12th of Februaray 1989 the respected Irish civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane was sitting down to a Sunday dinner in hisContinue Reading
Continuity IRA Prisoners End Dirty Protest In Maghaberry
Last week a significant number of the Irish political prisoners in the now notorious British-run Maghaberry Prison in the OccupiedContinue Reading
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