Connor Cruise O’Brien once asserted that there is an affinity between Irish people and Africans. While some attributed this bloodline shown in the shared letter ‘’O’’ in names, Professor Cheik Anta Diop claimed that Black African Ancient Egyptians colonised maritime areas near continental Europe. O’Brien was justifying his support for preventing Katanga from seceding from newly independent Congo.
As a nationalist aspiring for liberation from domination by European immigrants across Southern Africa, Robert Mugabe took note of O’Brien and Irish politicians. As President of Zimbabwe he was surprised by Senator Joe Biden’s decision to be Vice-President to a younger and politically immature Barack Obama, a son of a Harvard-trained Kenyan economist. As a young Senator, Biden had passionately condemned the oppression and impoverishment of Africans under racist rule in South Africa. Like O’Brien, he had Irish blood.
December 30, 2020
I was 79 on the 28th
December, the Feast of The Holy Innocents, and have just been introduced
to a new temptress named Alexa. She’ll play almost anything,
not with but for me, in an instant.
She apparently doesn’t
know THE BOYS OF KILMICHAEL, but does know KEVIN BARRY as rendered by Paul
Robeson, Lonnie Donegan and Leonard Cohen, but not by Joe Lynch which was the
most popular version on Radio Eireann. Robeson was taught it by Peadar
O’Donnell in 1949. The singer’s car had a puncture which was being fixed on the
way to a left-wing rally in, i think, New York State, and the veteran
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s: Ireland agreed to a US request to search Cuban-bound planes passing through Shannon
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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Volume XII: 1961-1965 recalls a period when a Catholic Irish-American had just been elected to the White House and the biggest foreign policy issue of the day concerned British relations with Europe. Ireland was about to take a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Welcome to 1961. So much for the similarities, there were also lots of differences too from the themes of today. For starters, Britain was desperately trying to