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1980s football challenge to remember Gerard and Martin Harte (Free article)
23 March 2005
On Easter Saturday, GAA football teams of a 1980s vintage from Loughmacrory in County Tyrone will dust off their boots and take part in a challenge match in memory of Loughmacrory footballers Gerard and Martin Harte.
St Patrick's Day cancelled in Glasgow (Free article)
23 March 2005
As the rest of the Diaspora celebrated St Patrick's Day, the Irish community in Scotland's largest city were denied that opportunity. The planned march in Glasgow was cancelled by organisers, following repeated attempts by Strathclyde police and Glasgow City Council to impose unprecedented conditions and costs. This is just the latest in a long…
Celebrating St Patrick in London (Free article)
23 March 2005
Tens of thousands of people came together to transform London's West End into one large celebration of St Patrick's Day on Sunday 12 March. A parade involving flags, floats and bands from Counties Associations, trade unions, Gaelic sports organisations, political and campaigning groups, and many others was led by London's Mayor Ken Livingstone,…
Belfast celebrates despite the begrudgers (Free article)
23 March 2005
Around 40 children from the Cumann na Fuiseoige GAA Club, along with their parents, took a break from their weekly training session to lead the West Belfast St Patrick's Day Parade from Dunville Park to Belfast City Hall.
Tom Smith honoured in Dublin (Free article)
23 March 2005
Over 150 Dublin republicans attended the annual Volunteer Tom Smith commemoration. Last Thursday, St Patrick's Day, marked the 30th anniversary of the IRA Volunteer's killing by 26-County soldiers in 1975, during an escape attempt from Portlaoise Prison. The annual Tom Smith commemoration followed his original funeral route from St Joseph's church…
Ógra Shinn Féin plant Liberty Tree (Free article)
23 March 2005
The Tyrone Garden of Remembrance was the setting for the second event in West Tyrone Sinn Fein's calendar of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sinn Fein.
Murdered IRA Volunteer honoured (Free article)
23 March 2005
"The family, friends and comrades of IRA Volunteer Keith Rogers know only too well the cost of criminality within our society and do not need lectures from self-appointed moral guardians like the Michael McDowells of this world telling us that the republican struggle to rid this country of British rule is criminal or corrupt," Sinn Féin TD Aengus…
Joe Cahill tribute organised by Ógra (Free article)
23 March 2005
The restructured Belfast cumann of Ógra Shinn Féin is organising a tribute in honour of veteran republican Joe Cahill, who died in July last year. The tribute, in the form of a mural, is to be unveiled at a ceremony at Britton's Parade on Easter Saturday, with Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly as the main speaker. A newly-erected plaque in memory of dead…
Michael Barrett (1841-1868) - The forgotten Fenian from Fermanagh: By Fr Joe McVeigh (Free article)
23 March 2005
The last public hanging in England took place in London, outside Newgate Prison (now the Old Bailey) on 26 May 1868. It was the hanging of an Irishman, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or the Fenians as they were called. His name was Michael Barrett and he came originally from the townland of Drumnagreshial in the Ederney-Kesh area of…
DeLorean and Callaghan - Heroes and villains? (Free article)
31 March 2005
Comparing the lives of Jim Callaghan and John DeLorean might seem strange; that they both died within a week of each other is merely coincidence, but in the context of Irish politics, their lives are very definitely interwined in life and death.
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