FOR those interested in Irish history Féile an Phobail is promising to be a real treat with many talks and tours diving into on all aspects of this part of Ireland’s amazing and storied past.
THE narrow vote in the Dáil 100 years ago last week in favour of the Treaty imposed the partitionist institutions demanded by the British under threat of “war – and war within three days”. The vote led directly to the calamitous Civil War in the South, years of violence in the North and a fractured society. Nationalists in the North were abandoned by the Southern political establishment. The recent comments by Joe Brolly and Bernadette McAliskey which have given expression to this have been sharply criticised by apologists for that establishment. The evidence of a century of lived experience by northern nationalists has been brushed aside as irrelevant. The sectarian apartheid state in the six counties did not emerge by happenstance in 1921. Sectarianism – the deliberate playing off of northern unionists against nationalists as a means of maintaining unionist/British hegemony – was central to the communal, industrial and political divisions that dominated life in Ireland�
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The mother of seven was a huge support to her husband throughout his political career
The death has taken place of the wife of former Taoiseach and Longford native Albert Reynolds.
Kathleen Reynolds passed away this morning at the family home in Dublin. The 88-year-old was a Sligo native and was also the mother of seven children.
She was well known in the 1990s when she accompanied her husband on several foreign trips while the Longford TD served as Taoiseach between 1992 and 1994.
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She is understood to have been ill for some time and no details of her funeral have yet been announced.
Ireland s Gerry Adams tells jailed Catalan leaders: You know we support you
El Nacional
Updated Wednesday, 23 December 2020. 21:24
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Former Sinn Féin leader
Gerry Adams has had an online meeting with two of the jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders: ERC party leader
Oriol Junqueras and former Catalan foreign minister
Raül Romeva, who spoke to the Irish peacemaker from Lledoners prison in Catalonia where they are incarcerated for their part in the 2017 independence process. Adams reiterated his support for the Catalan struggle. You know you have our support. The links between the struggles of the Catalan and Irish people go back a long way, said the retired Irish politician. I myself was imprisoned for Christmas, and it s not a pleasant place to be. But