Independent Ireland
on the issue of Irish Independence
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In this article I will look at the “political criticism”made by Dr. McNamara of the ‘Catholic Predicament’ books, ‘Catastrophe, 1914-68’ and ‘Resurgence, 1969-2016’ in his Irish News review (28.7.16). It also deals with the other criticisms made by Dr. McNamara. Previous criticism was dealt with in earlier pieces. “literary criticism was dealt with in an earlier…
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A Commemorative weekend was held in North Antrim on the last weekend of July to celebrate the life of Roger Casement, just before the Centenary of his execution The first event in Ballycastle took place at Corrymeela. When I arrived I was asked at the door if I “was looking for the SDLP meeting?” “No”,…
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This article deals with what we might describe as the “literary criticism”made by Dr. McNamara of the ‘Catholic Predicament’ books, ‘Catastrophe, 1914-68’ and ‘Resurgence, 1969-2016’. The political criticism – what exists of it apart from long-range sniping – will be dealt in a subsequent piece. McNamara begins his Irish News review with a rather misconceived…
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Last week at the Roger Casement commemoration at Murlough Bay in North Antrim Martin Ferris, the Kerry Sinn Fein TD, described the Irish Independent group as an enemy of Ireland. And with good reason given its hatred of the Northern Catholics and its repeated attempts to frustrate that community’s struggle for justice and equality. Now…
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I will be giving a talk on Resurgence during Féile an Phobail at St. Mary’s College, Falls Road, Belfast Tuesday 9th August at 1pm Everyone Welcome Dé Mairt 9 Lúnasa, 1.00 i.n. Seoleadh leabhair agus caint i leabhar Pat Walsh ‘Catastrophe’ tugann sé cuntas ar na rudaí a tharla sa Tuaisceart idir 1914 agus 1968.…
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The following letter was published by The Irish News today in reply to the review of ‘Resurgence’ written by Dr. Robert McNamara. Letters to the newspaper are limited to 500 words so a more extensive reply will appear on this site soon. The Irish News gave it the headline, ‘View of Haughey as Catholics’ Best…
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The following review of Resurgence written by Dr. Robert McNamara, History Lecturer at the University of Ulster, was published by the Irish News on 28 July. It has been reproduced below without comment. A reply will appear in good time: “Catastrophe and Resurgence: The Catholic Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland’ Volumes I and II, by Pat…
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Whilst Nationalist Ireland is bending over backwards to accommodate the great Imperial blood sacrifice of the Battle of the Somme in its historical memory there is no spirit of reciprocity in the DUP toward the Irish democracy. For the DUP the Irish democracy – which had to be established by a war of independence when…
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In the beginning was ‘Northern Ireland’. This weird political concoction was set up in 1920/1 for British Imperial purposes quite apart from any desire to produce a settlement of the national division on the island and “the better government of Ireland”. The detachment of the 6 Counties from the rest of the island and their…
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The opening shots in the Liberal Irish Home Rule campaign were fired by Winston Churchill in West Belfast in February 1912. Churchill’s visit to Belfast seems to have been motivated by a desire to argue the Imperial case for Home Rule in Ulster. But like a lot of other things Churchill did in his political…
