The Troubles – Bald Politiks

When were these Halcyon Days of the Media?

October 28, 2017January 2, 2018 Peter BBC, Bobby Sands, Bobby Sands By Election, Denis Halliday, Edmund Burke Theatre, Enda Kenny, Gemma O Doherty, Halcyon days, Hunger Strikes, IRA, IRA Chief of Staff, John Pilger, Media Bias, Nelson Mandela, Northern Ireland, Paramilitary, President Mary Mc Aleese, Seán Mac Stiofáin, Section 31, Terrorist, The Troubles, Trinity College Dublin, UVF

(Updated version here on IrishCentral.com) Having wanted to see him speak for some time, you can imagine my delight when

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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 Reasons why The 1916 Rising was justified and necessary

March 26, 2016 Peter 1916 Proclamation, 1916 Rising, Battle of the Bogside, Bengal Famine, Black and Tans, British Commonwealth, Dissident Republicans, Eamon DeValera, Easter Monday, Easter Rising, Easter Sunday, Gerrymandering, Home Rule, James Connolly, Monarchy, O' Connell Street, Padraig Pearse, Republicans, SDLP MBE OBE Irish Republican Nationalism, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Amritsar Massacre, The Auxiliaries, The Conflict in the north of Ireland, The Famine, The GPO, The IRA, The Troubles, Unionists, World war 1 casualties

The 1916 Proclamation supported Irish Independence – those who opposed it supported an empire and the slaughter of millions. Home Rule, even

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