Oct 7, 2011 | Latest
Feature I wrote for the Irish Times, partly in response to journalist Peter Murtagh’s remarks a week earlier, but covering the wider issue of the hypocrisy and double-standards prevalent in the mainstream parties in the South was published. 1st October. Publicly...
Sep 13, 2011 | Latest
Wrote a piece about the Boston College’s flawed archive on the conflict, which was produced by two people hostile to the Republican Movement given carte blanche, Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre. The feature was published in today’s Irish Voice in the USA. – link here....
Sep 8, 2011 | Latest
British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking after the results of an inquiry into an Iraqi man Baha Mousa, who was beaten to death by British soldiers, said “such an incident should never happen again”. The same was said about here by Ted Heath after the revelations...
Sep 6, 2011 | Latest
Recently, a log was brought to my attention in which the dissident republican Anthony McIntyre, links me to the killing of a 26-year-old Shankill Road, Protestant man, Samuel Llewellyn. Back then, in July 1975, at 22, just out of internment and living under many...
Aug 10, 2011 | Latest
Interviewed along with Professor Keith Jeffrey on local BBC radio’s Good Morning Ulster on the subject of the 40th anniversary of the introduction of internment and the repercussions of that disastrous exercise in repression by the Ulster Unionist government,...
Jul 23, 2011 | Latest
Finished Stephen Walker’s excellent and moving account of the battle between Irish Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty in the Vatican during WWII and Gestapo Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler who planned to assassinate O’Flaherty. O’Flaherty set up an escape line and saved the...
