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16 October 1997 Edition

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Mr Clark's words bring into clear focus the military mind-set which was applied to every consideration of British policy towards this conflict. It verbalises the racist thinking behind such policies as the brutalising of Irish political prisoners in English jails.

Sinn Féin's Gearóid O hEara on the recent outburst of anti-Irish racism by Alan Clark at the Tory Party conference. Irish Times, Thursday 9 October.

 


This is a community which, for 400 years, has been a stranger in its own land.

John Hume on the unionist people of the Six Counties. Irish News, Saturday 11 October.

 


Fenian bastards get out of Protestant Portadown. We got Robert. LVF, LVF.

Song sung to the family of Portadown murder victim when they visit the centre of the town. Ireland on Sunday, 12 October.

 


The prospect of GAA matches being classified under the same heading as Orange Order parades is one of the most ridiculous and potentially sinister developments in the North's recent troubled history.

Editorial in Ireland On Sunday. 12 October.

 


Should £1 million buy you ownership of the Book of Kells, the Famine, the 1916 Rising, our language, winning the Eurovision umpteen times, the lakes of Killarney, our humour, the craic, our popularity as a nation abroad.

Mary Kerrigan writing in Ireland On Sunday on the recent passports for money scandal. 12 October.

 


[We have entered] an era of success, of mé féinism... Where everyone must be successful. We hear a lot about the right to life of the unborn, but why do we think so little about the right to life of the born?

Mountjoy Jail Governor John Lonergan speaking at the Simon Community's 20th annual conference in Dublin at the weekend.

 


Yesterday's meeting between Tony Blair and Gerry Adams was yet another way-station on the Via Dolorosa of British decline.

Daily Telegraph editorial. Tuesday 14 October.

 


Go on home to England.

A shout from `loyalist' protestors at Tony Blair. Monday 13 October.

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