Oct 7, 2011 | Features
Wrote a feature for the Irish Times about the Presidential race in the south which was published yesterday, along with several other mainly anti-Martin McGuinness contributions. Here it is: Pearse and Connolly woke up one Easter Morning and decided to seize the GPO....
Sep 13, 2011 | Latest
Wrote a piece about the Boston College’s flawed archive on the conflict, which was produced by two people hostile to the Republican Movement given carte blanche, Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre. The feature was published in today’s Irish Voice in the USA. – link here....
Sep 8, 2011 | Latest
British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking after the results of an inquiry into an Iraqi man Baha Mousa, who was beaten to death by British soldiers, said “such an incident should never happen again”. The same was said about here by Ted Heath after the revelations...
Sep 8, 2011 | Features
‘Pigeons on the Grass’ is Wolfgang Koeppen’s 1951 novel about Germany emerging from the chaos of WWII and is probably set in Munich in 1948 during one twenty-four hour period of the American-occupation, and includes among its host of characters two US GIs, a writer...
Sep 6, 2011 | Latest
Recently, a log was brought to my attention in which the dissident republican Anthony McIntyre, links me to the killing of a 26-year-old Shankill Road, Protestant man, Samuel Llewellyn. Back then, in July 1975, at 22, just out of internment and living under many...