Pietre contro giovani calciatori dublinesi

Due squadre di giovani calciatori che partecipano alla Milk Cup sono state trasferite per un episodio di violenza settaria scoppiato lunedì sera a Coleraine.
Un diciannovenne è stato fermato dopo che, intorno alle 22:30, delle pietre sono state lanciate contro l’edificio che ospitava i ragazzi del Crumlin United e del Cherry Orchard, di Dublino.
I giovani calciatori, [...]

Crip’s oration

Delivered by Willie Gallagher on behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement on 30-06-08

Comrades, we stand here today in memory of and in solemn salute to the life of an Irish revolutionary, Irish National Liberation Army Volunteer Christopher McWilliams.
The Republican Socialist Movement stand in grief beside his family, acutely aware that they have lost a [...]

Irish Poetry

Michael Longley

Impasto or washes as a rule:
Tuberous clottings, a muddy
Accumulation, internal rhyme -
Fuchsias droop towards the ground,
The potato and its flower.
Or a continuing drizzle,
Specialization of light,
Bog-water stretched over sand
In small waves, elisions -
The dialect of silence.
Or, sometimes, in combination
Outlining the bent spines,
The anular limbs of creatures -
Lost minerals colouring
The initial letter, the stance.
« Piccolo spazio [...]

Edna Longley: Poetry and the Peace Process

From “Books and Writings”, ABC Radio National
by Ramona Koval, Sunday 24/07/2005
Summary: After many lifetimes of conflict and intransigence in Northern Ireland, the fragility of the peace process has fostered a language of precariousness. According to Irish critic Edna Longley, the poetry of this period has done more than just passively observe the effects of division, [...]

The Wrong Man

Martin Ingram, Force Research Unit, May 2006
The accusation that an individual is an Informer is a serious one, and it goes without saying that the majority of accusations, over the last two years are sometimes way of the mark. Many of these allegations are made with an agenda in mind .The allegations do have the [...]

“Do Not Become Recruiting-Sergeant for PSNI”, Reiss is Advised

Irish National Caucus, President,Father Sean Mc Manus, 4 february 2006
A letter to Mitchel Reiss
Dr. Mitchel Reiss
Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
Saturday, February 4, 2006
Dear Mitchel,
Because of your strong, unreserved support of the PSNI, I thought you would be interested in the enclosed article from Daily Ireland, “PSNI won’t become representative of wider society in North until [...]

I once knew a boy…

Dolours Price
My own experiences with Gerry Kelly as a comrade on a difficult mission in England and our subsequent imprisonment together leaves me somewhat emotionally vulnerable to the person. We went through a lot together. It causes me a great deal of pain to ridicule the boy I once knew to be stubborn, anti-establishment, arrogant [...]

Getting the Facts Right

21st January 2006, McKevitt & Sands Family statement
It was recently reported by various media, that Michael McKevitt was “convicted of directing terrorism at the time of Omagh.” This is factually inaccurate. Unfortunately, this is not the first time the media have carried false and misleading reports about Michael. Therefore we feel it is necessary for [...]