29 September 2013 Edition
Alastair Campbell’s ‘Irish Diaries’ out this month
29 September 2013
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL is publishing at the end of October a newly-edited one-volume edition of his “relentlessly honest, often controversial, occasionally brutal and always razor-sharp” diaries on Ireland and the Peace Process when he was British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Director of Communications and Strategy. Premium service article
The Irish in Scotland ‘struggling for respect’
29 September 2013
IT’S A STRIKING THOUGHT that the Irish in Glasgow achieved occupational parity a full hundred years AFTER their cousins in New York. Free article
Fianna Fáil and the Fourth Green Field
29 September 2013
THE broad time frame of this book, albeit focussed through the prism of one political party’s perspective, would challenge any author. Premium service article
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Are promises on the Irish language being kept?
29 September 2013
AS A SINN FÉIN ACTIVIST and MLA I am very proud of the contribution the party has made to the promotion and development of Irish since 1998 and the Good Friday Agreement and also prior to that. Premium service article
Filming the Spirit of Freedom
29 September 2013
IT SEEMS a simple proposition. Write, cast and direct an accurate, thoughtful portrayal of the Irish national struggle. The books, biographies, archives, locations even, they are all there. Free article
Inside stories – Frongoch and Ballykinlar POW camps
29 September 2013
PRISONS and the incarceration of those suspected by the authorities of fostering sedition have always held a special place in the republican consciousness. Jails were regarded as an opportunity to further the struggle in a different theatre of operations rather than ending the prisoners’ participation in the fight. Free article