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An Phoblacht Editor

Gerry Adams’s Waterfront speech appeals to ‘thoughtful leaders of unionism’

Some of what’s in the July issue of An Phoblacht . . .

• EDITORIAL: The talks at Stormont – Sinn Féin is engaged and working for an agreement

• ‘New approach’ needed to convince unionists about a united Ireland – Gerry Adams’s Waterfront address invites Orange Order to talks, appeals to ‘thoughtful leaders of unionism’

• Theresa May finds ‘magic money tree’ to buy DUP support for Conservatives: DUP/Tory deal – ‘A blank cheque for a Tory Brexit that threatens the Good Friday Agreement’

• The Magnificent Seven in Westminster – Sinn Féin’s new MPs attract global attention as Tory election gamble backfires

• ‘We live in interesting times’ – Peadar Whelan spends time behind the scenes at the Westminster election counts

• Shine is wearing off ‘New Iron Lady’ Theresa May

• SDLP flounders in Sinn Féin tide

• Uafás na Palaistíne ar Scáileán

• Prison struggle was about the Republic declared in Easter Week 1916 – Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD, Director of Elections for H-Blocks Hunger Striker Kieran Doherty TD in 1981, ahead of the National Hunger Strike Commemoration in County Mayo

• Tamil exiles visit Belfast and Derry to tell of the genocide by Sri Lanka highlighted by Channel 4

• Bodenstown Wolfe Tone Commemoration – ‘Advancing towards Irish unity in the United Irish tradition’ (Sinn Féin National Chair Declan Kearney)

• Marco Vernon came to Ireland from Brazil 17 years ago to publicise the plight of the Amazon’s Guarani-Kaiowá people then was murdered by a rancher’s hirelings when he went home – his son returned this year to meet Sinn Féin

• Erin’s Hope – Aengus Ó Snoadigh writes on the 150th anniversary of the US gun-running ship

• Not on the Nine O’Clock News – Seán Mac Brádaigh casts his eye over RTÉ, the elections and Brendan Howlin’s Labour Party cashing in on Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity