Problem of Northern Ireland
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Here is a version of a talk I gave on 31st August 2014, at St. Mary’s College, Falls Road as part of Féile an Phobail (West Belfast Festival) on the Catholic predicament in ‘Northern Ireland’ 1914-68. The event was chaired by Mark Langhammer and introduced by Jim Gibney. “In 1920/1 the Catholics of the North…
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The Gerry Adams slip that described the Sinn Fein equality agenda as a Republican Trojan Horse has, says Unionism, let the cat out of the bag. Mike Nesbitt, the UUP leader, said that the Sinn Fein leader “has taken what we all politically assumed was a core value and part of the vision for the…
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Twenty years ago, on 31st August 1994, the Republican Army announced a complete cessation of military operations. That remarkable development of the Northern Catholics – the new Republican Army – was a product of the working out of the departure in Catholic politics that had been originally prompted from the South, from the office of…
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The Catholic Bulletin published this account of the Irish struggle for independence and sovereignty in 1938. It was written by Sean Toibin, writing under the pen name Fear Faire – a regular columnist for the Bulletin. It was put into print as De Valera completed the national struggle (except for the Six County area which…
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This year marks a significant centenary for the Nationalists of the North of Ireland. The year of 1914 saw the climax of their struggle for Irish Home Rule and the great gamble of their leaders, including their own Joe Devlin, in supporting Britain’s Great War. Having gradually freed themselves from centuries of systematic oppression, the…
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The Great War of 1914 was Britain’s Great War. But it should also be called Britain’s Great Fraud on Ireland and the world. When Britain encouraged and then entered the European war that was taking shape in August 1914 it made it into a Great War. It was Great Britain that put the Great in…
