A recent profile of Eamonn McCann in The Irish News repeated the mythology that McCann himself has cultivated.
25 years
The passage of time has made the intellectual contradictions in Irish Republicanism much harder to sustain.
The absence of violence was supposed to bring them together. If anything, it appears to have driven them further apart.
No more prosecutions for murders during the Troubles?
Oh, Ian: “A DUP MP has faced criticism from parliamentary counterparts after linking the IRA with Catholicism. Ian Paisley’s reference to the sectarian murder campaign by the “Catholic IRA” drew critical responses from fellow members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Mr Paisley was questioning Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on legacy issues and was […]
Tom Mitchell who died on July 22 just short of his 89th birthday was twice elected as a Westminster MP while a republican prisoner, which I believe is a unique distinction. Mitchell was born in Dublin in 1931 and joined the Dublin Brigade of the IRA in the early 1950s. He took part in a […]