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Witness Trees
WITNESS TREES.
I used to have an old hard backed copy of Nora Connolly O’Brien’s; ‘Portrait Of A Rebel Father’. This wonderful account of James Connol…
5 years, 9 months ago
Join the Campaign to Protect Moore Street and the 1916 Battlefield site
This podcast is going to deal with the shameful refusal of successive Irish governments to develop a national monument, a cultural quarter, a revolut…
5 years, 9 months ago
The last time I met Kieran Doherty
Sunday, August 2nd is the anniversary of the death on hunger strike in 1981 of Andersonstown man Kieran Doherty. Normally, August is also when Sinn F…
5 years, 10 months ago
Celebrating the Twelfth
This week I thought I would talk about the 12th in this podcast. When I mentioned a few days ago to some friends that I was going to do this podcast …
5 years, 10 months ago
Leading the Opposition
The big spin from last week and the formation of the new government in Dublin is that civil war politics is dead and gone.
But the truth is that for …
5 years, 11 months ago
Bodenstown and the re-alignment of Irish politics
Traditionally the third Sunday of June is when Irish republicans from across the island of Ireland gather at the graveside of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstow…
5 years, 11 months ago
You only die once. You live everyday.
You only die once.You live everyday.
I first met Martin McGuinness shortly before he & I travelled to London in 1972 as part of a delegation to negoti…
6 years ago
Long Kesh Escapes
Last week the British Supreme Court quashed two convictions I had received in 1975 for attempting to escape from Long Kesh internment camp. It was a …
6 years ago
Remembering Bobby Sands
A remembrance of my friend and comrade Bobby Sands who died on hunger strike this week (5 May) 1981. Bobby was the first of ten republican prisoners …
6 years, 1 month ago