Internment
This week marks the anniversary of the reintroduction of internment without trial in the North of Ireland in 1971.
Since the partition of Ireland in 1922, the British Unionist-controlled government in Stormont had interned Irish Republican prisoners in every decade up until the 1970s. My grandfather was interned in the 1940s, an uncle in the 1950’s and two uncles in the 1970s. As a family, we knew the cost of the internment.
Fascinating New Study on Famine Effect on Irish Height in LiveIreland.ie Today.
Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found.
The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast and Edinburgh Business School has examined the impact of one of the defining events in Irish history.
Gerry Adams and Séanna Walsh – 2005 – Towards a New Ireland (and the End of the IRA’s Armed Struggle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PTX64l1W9g
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2005 was a momentous year in the Irish peace process when Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams called on the IRA leadership to end its...
The Power of Culture
A Letter from Ireland
a Chara,
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At the...
Irish Lit: Drumming Days and a Belfast Poet
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