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14 October, 2004 |
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This Friday 15 October, marks the 30th anniversary of the burning of Long Kesh camp by republican POWs. In an article originally published in the November 1994 issue of Captive Voice, a magazine produced by republican POWs, former prisoner JOE DOHERTY from North Belfast recalls that historic act of resistance. Photo: Starting top left: Hugh O'Hara, Paddy Mulvenna, Fr. Martin Kelly, Leo Morgan, Brendan Davidson, Manuel Duffy, Peter McCauley, Seán McLoughlin, Joe Doherty, Eddie Larkin, Billy Kelly, Mickey Loughran, Seamus Drain, Seamie Darragh, Kieran Rooney Roses bloomed and little children died A little garden, Fragrant and full of roses. The path is narrow And a little boy walks along it. A little boy, a sweet boy, Like that growing blossom. When the blossom comes to bloom, The little boy will be no more. 
This is the first comprehensive biography of Seán Mac Diarmada, signatory of the Proclamation of the Republic and, in many ways, as the title suggests, the mind behind the 1916 Rising. Photo: Seán MacDiarmada pictured with Tom Clarke (centre) and John Daly What is it the state gives you when you reach 100 years of age nowadays? €100? €1,000? Well, Sinn Féin members are a little more generous than that. November 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of Sinn Féin and its members are planning a year-long birthday party to celebrate. The reshuffle of Bertie Ahern's team in Leinster house has been nothing more than a public relations and propaganda exercise, writes AN DRAOI RUA The week in quotes. 
An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Read on... Photo: Davy Adams, a co-founder of the now defunct and UDA-backed Ulster Democratic Party BY SHANE MacTHOMÁIS On 18 October 1791, 213 years ago, the first Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast. Its inspiration was a young Dublin lawyer, Theobald Wolfe Tone, who was invited to Ulster by some Presbyterian radicals after publishing a pamphlet entitled An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland. |
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