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Racist bombings in London (Free article)
29 April 1999
On 17 April and 24 April, two successive Saturdays, areas strongly associated with immigrant communities, Brixton in South London and Brick Lane in East London, were targeted by nail-bombs, left without warning and clearly intended to maim and kill. It is only by chance that npobody has yet been killed, although the casualties number dozens.
Remembering the Past: The Limerick Soviet (Free article)
29 April 1999
In the second part of an article on the Limerick Soviet of 1919, Aengus O Snodaigh tells the story of its brief height and fall.
Adams slams NATO bombing and `Partnership for Peace' (Free article)
29 April 1999
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has strongly slated the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat government's intention to join NATO's `Partnership for Peace' organisation. He was speaking at a conference on Irish neutrality and European security organised by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) in Trinity College, Dublin, on Saturday, 24 April. Also…
Back issue: SAS victim was shot in back (Free article)
29 April 1999
Gavin Shuter, the uncle of Jim Taylor, the wildfowler shot dead by the SAS while on a hunting expedition in Coagh, County Tyrone last September, has called for the SAS men to be charged with murder.
Television: Obscene legacy of church and state (Free article)
29 April 1999
I had the misfortune, like many others, to spend a year, at the age of 12, in one of Ireland's brutal boarding schools. Sweets, chocolate, music and magazines were banned, contact with the girls was strictly forbidden and those caught uttering a sound after lights out at eight o'clock were severely beaten.
Posthumous US award for Rosemary Nelson (Free article)
6 May 1999
A posthumous award is to be presented for human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson. The murder of the Lurgan solicitor, who died in a car bomb attack on March 15, continues to attract widespread international condemnation.The award is to be presented at New Jersey's Seeton Hall during a ceremony at the end of the month. It will be collected by…
Unity is strength (Free article)
6 May 1999
May Day came and went last weekend. Across Ireland most us took time out to enjoy the good weather, many oblivious to the reason why we have a bank holiday on the first Monday in May. The same way the vast majority of Irish workers are ignorant of the fact they owe their right to paid annual holidays to the women laundry workers who in the late…
Mála Poist (Free article)
6 May 1999
Dangerous connections A Chairde, Two stories in the Irish Times on 28 April, by Carol Coulter in particular and by Suzanne Breen, on connections between the UUP, the Orange Order and the Church of Ireland, illustrate how one of the central problems of society in the North of Ireland is not being tackled. That problem is the institutional…
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