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Back to homepageDr. Edward Daly, 5 December 1933 – 8 August 2016 0
The retired Bishop of Derry Dr. Edward Daly, described as the ‘people’s bishop’, has died in Altnagelvin Hospital on the Glenshane road in Derry, Northern Ireland
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I am proud to be a rebel – Roger Casement by Gerry Adams
Tuesday was the anniversary of Big Doc’s (Kieran Doherty) death on hunger strike. He died the day after Kevin Lynch
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The Long Road to Peace
Making peace, as Gerry Adams continues to reiterate, quoting Nelson Mandela, is much more difficult than making war
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Bobby Sands: The revolutionary spirit of freedom
At 1.17 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5th, 1981, having completed sixty-five days on hunger-strike, Bobby Sands MP, died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh
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Michel Martin could play a leadership role in the necessary process of making Irish unity a reality
during and after the general election the one thing that all Fianna Fáil spokespersons agreed on was their hostility to Sinn Féin emerging as the official opposition in the Dáil.
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IRELAND PEACE PROCESS: THE JOURNEY IS NOT OVER YET
On 9 April, eighteen years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Ireland. It took four years for the British and Irish governments, republican and nationalist parties and unionist parties (of the North of Ireland) to reach such an agreement
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Ireland, 1916: Something To Commemorate?
If 1916 means anything to those of us who aspire and struggle for radical social change it has to be because in an environment with so little integrity the moments that appear and the individuals that are fortunate to embody them become like a light in the proverbial darkness
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Sanders wrote to Thatcher about 1981 Hunger Strike in Long Kesh
A letter in the political archive at the University of Vermont reveals that US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in July 1981
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Election promises last only as long as the campaign
In government Fianna Fáil was responsible for the worst banking collapse in Irish history, which almost bankrupted the 26 counties, set new record levels of unemployment and emigration
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Provisional IRA still exists, says British report
The report endorses last month’s assessment by Police Service Northern Ireland chief George Hamilton in which he said individual members of the Provisional IRA were involved in the recent murder of Kevin McGuigan
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