Month: April 2016

In 1916 Centenary Year, shouldn’t we ask – Were “The Troubles” in the North of Ireland “a War”?

April 30, 2016 Peter 1916, 1916 Rising, 1966 Jubilee, 1969, 6 counties, B Specials, Battle of the Bogside, Bogside, Bogside Murals, Cambodia, Definition of War, Der Vertriebenen, Dirty War, Free Derry, Gerrymandering, IRA, Khmer Rouge, loyalists, Normalisation, Northern Ireland, Pol Pot, PSNI, Republicans, Roy Mason, RUC, Rwanda, Samuel Thompson, Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Serbia Croatia, Slugger O' Toole, The Troubles, Tokyo Olympics, UFF, Ulsterisation, UVF, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Yugoslavia

A recent article on the blog Slugger O’Toole titled Why the Irish can’t “get over” ‘The Troubles’ raises a number of great questions. It

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10 things that tell you “Northern Ireland” is not in the UK

April 30, 2016 Peter 10 things that, 6 counties, Abortion, Ardoyne, Belfast City Hall, Border, British Citizenship, Cricket Ireland, cross border bodies, Derby, FAI, Flegs, GAA, Green, Hockey Ireland, International GAA, Ireland, IRFU, Irish Citizenship, Irish Government Bodies, legal tender, loyalists, money, NAMA, Northern Ireland, Orangemen, Parades Commission, Peace Walls, Proportional Representation STV, St. Patricks Day, Tax, Twaddell, United Kingdom, Woodvale Avenue

In November 2013 a radio colleague (a student intern from Italy) interviewed Loyalists marchers (Orange men) at the stand off at Twaddell Avenue in

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35 years since Bobby Sands Election – The 1981 Hunger Strike, Reaction and its Legacy

April 13, 2016 Peter 10 men dead, 1981, 5 May 1981, 66 Days, 7 May 1981, 9 April 1981, Abstention, BBC, Bobby Sands, Bobby Sands street, By-Election, Dáil Éireann, Danny Morrison, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, five demands, Frank Maguire, Ghent, Greece, H-Block, Harry West, Hunger, Hunger Strikes, independent republican, INLA, IRA, Long Kesh, loyalists, Michael Fassbender, Michael Thatcher, Norway protest, Owen Carron, Paris, Political Status, Queen Elizabeth 2, Sands in coma, Sinn Féin, Steve Mc Queen, Tehran, the armalite and the ballot box, The Maze, Tommy Mc Kearney, Ulster Unionist

On 9 April 1981, with 30,492 votes, Bobby Sands won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election following the death of Independent Republican MP, Frank