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A total of 341 people were arrested
A total of 341 people were arrested
THADE ANDY asks so what exactly is Sinn Féin nowadays?
A total of 341 people were arrested
A total of 341 people were arrested
Bonfires and Lambeg drums
A total of 341 people were arrested
Aontú leader Peadar Toibín TD has hit out at the UK’s Tory government for offering amnesty to British soldiers over killings carried out in Ireland. Speaking about the acknowledgment of the Ballymurphy victims by the British state for the first time, Toibín welcomed the development. “It was a wonderful day for the families of Ballymurphy,” […]
Yesterday, a cavalcade of cars made their way around Ballymurphy in West Belfast. The small streets were crowded as a whole community celebrated a vital, historical ruling. Photographers captured the jubilant, delighted faces: neighbours hugging each other in the bright sunshine, relief and joy and tears and smiles from the families who had waited so long for this day. White […]
It’s a long-held political axiom among nationalists in the north that the demographic trend would eventually put Sinn Féin in power in Northern Ireland. Because Catholics tended to have larger families they would eventually outvote unionists, or so it was commonly believed. This, of course, contributed to the sectarian violence and terrorism of unionist militias, from […]
In the week that marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, the loyalist violence in Belfast underlined the fact that little has changed regarding the fundamental nature of society in the north of Ireland. It is unlikely that many of the people taking part in the […]
Pat Finucane’s family were sitting down to Sunday dinner at their home in North Belfast on February 12th, 1989 when their door was smashed in by masked loyalist killers wielding sledgehammers. The gunmen then shot Finucane fourteen times in front of his wife Geraldine and his terrified children. He was 39 years old. Since that […]
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