Pro-Agreement and anti-Agreement Unionists were united recently at the funeral of Sir Josias Cunningham, a leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland. Cunningham was killed on August 9 in a two-car collision in Belfast. He was 66. Cunningham was elected president of the Ulster Unionist Council in 1991. The Council is the governing … [Read more...] about News from Ireland: Ulster Unionists Lose Party Leader
Those we Lost
Paul O’Dwyer
Civil Rights Champion
Since his childhood in Mayo during the worst of the Black and Tan atrocities, Paul O'Dwyer has been a fearless champion of human rights. During the Red Scare and the civil rights movement he stood up for the oppressed regardless of personal cost. He was an early ally of the State of Israel and helped persuade President Truman to recognize this nation's independence. His law … [Read more...] about Paul O’DwyerCivil Rights Champion
A Fond Farewell to Irish Writer Sean O’Faolain
By Antionette O'Ceallaigh June 1991
On April 20, Sean O'Faolain, one of Ireland's finest writers, died in a Dublin nursing home after a long illness. Bom in Cork in 1900, he left unfinished the second part of his autobiography, Vive Moi. But he also left behind a golden store of novels, plays, biographies and literary criticism, as well as several collections of short stories, of which he was a true master. In … [Read more...] about A Fond Farewell to Irish Writer Sean O’Faolain