IRISH NATIONALISM IN CLEVELAND
IRISH NATIONALISM IN CLEVELAND. Support for the cause of Irish nationhood has flourished in Cleveland, Ohio, for as long as IRISH immigrants have settled in the area. Cleveland first began to attract Irish laborers in numbers when work commenced here on the OHIO AND ERIE CANAL in 1825. Several early immigrants were noted in obituaries and family lore as supporters of the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798 or followers of patriot Robert Emmet, who was executed by the British in 1803.
A Friends of Ireland group was formed in Cleveland in 1841, and the city’s first public celebration of St. Patrick’s Day took place in 1842. Two supporters of the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion made their way to Cleveland in the 1850s. One, Professor J.R. Fitzgerald spoke regularly on Irish Nationalist themes at an annual banquet hosted by the HIBERNIAN GUARDS, a local militia. The other, bootmaker Patrick Kiernan Walsh, would spearhead nationalist activities
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Scotland topped the Europe Rainbow Index in 2015 but the intervening years have seen our nation slip down the league table IT’S hard to square the SNP’s manifesto claim that they have been “leading Europe on LGBTI equality” when the past five years under their watch would be better characterised as a deeply difficult and at times traumatic period for Scotland’s transgender community – particularly when much of that hardship has come as a direct result of the party’s inaction on tackling transphobia within its own ranks. While Scotland did top the Europe Rainbow Index in 2015, the intervening years have seen our nation slip down the league table to find itself resting behind Malta and Belgium. What victories for LGBT liberation there have been over the past parliamentary term, while important, have often been closer to symbolic displays of progress than any meaningful root reform.
The conference will discuss papers from former SNP depute leader Jim Sillars ALBA are set to launch their second policy conference in preparation for next week’s manifesto launch. Today’s conference will discuss papers from former SNP depute leader Jim Sillars on a written constitution for an independent Scotland, Alba candidate for South Scotland and former MP Corri Wilson on pension policy, Alba candidate for Central Scotland Dr Jim Walker on currency policy for independence and from party leader Alex Salmond on Scotland And The World, encompassing the party’s new European strategy. It will also hear from Alba candidate for Glasgow Ailsa Gray on energy and renewables and from Alba candidate for the Highlands and Islands Craig Berry.
What I really said at the Alba Party conference - Margaret Lynch Margaret Lynch
My remarks at the Alba Conference can be verified by anyone who visits the website of the ILGA. © Margaret Lynch.
It was a fantastic conference with over 400 women participating, which resulted in the Alba Party adopting a Women and Equalities Policy Statement, which acknowledges that no single protected characteristic is more virtuous or worthy of recognition and safeguarding than another.
All of the reports my three-minute speech to the Alba Conference – whether on Twitter or in the media – were based on a third party account. This has been maliciously and cynically twisted for political ends, and demands have been made that I apologise for things I never said and do not believe.
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