As British Prime Minister John Major and Taoiseach Albert Reynolds announced their historic "Joint Declaration for Peace" in Northern Ireland on December 15, the vital question was whether the new document would be sufficient to launch a real peace process or whether it would end up as just another failed initiative. An historic opportunity for peace in our time or just … [Read more...] about What Price Peace?
The First Word: Our Own Flesh and Blood
Wee Annie's uncle is dead. You might have read about him. He got a line in the New York Times. He was the 72-year old pensioner shot in the Loyalist backlash that followed the Shankill fish shop bombing. Wee Annie's uncle lived alone. They found him in the living room of his small house -- bound and gagged and shot in the head. It is thought that the UDA were trying to get him … [Read more...] about The First Word: Our Own Flesh and Blood
Blazes Boylan
By Emer Mullins
November December 1993
Three Irishmen have been remanded in custody in Antwerp, Belgium, in connection with the theft of four of the most important paintings from the Beit Collection, stolen from Russborough House in Wicklow in 1986. Works by Goya, Vermeer, Metsu and Vestier, which police said were valued between £30 and €40 million in total, were recovered from what was the biggest heist in the … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
The American Ireland Fund Goes Hollywood
By Frank Prendergast
January February 1993
The event was a gala dinner honoring vaudeville, screen, and television star Donald Award.O'Connor as the recipient of the 1992 Heritage Co-chairmen for the dinner were motion picture legend Gene Kelly and Michael J. Roarty, Executive Vice President of Anheuser-Busch. The chairman for the dinner was television and motion picture executive Frank Price and the master of … [Read more...] about The American Ireland Fund Goes Hollywood