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Politics Archive

Ireland’s Groovy Arts Minister

Colin Lacey talks to Michael D. Higgins (recently dubbed by British Vogue as the world’s…

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Tim Walz of the Tomhaggard Doyles

How A Solitary Tombstone in Wisconsin Solved the Mystery of His Irish Origins As a…

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Gerry Conlon outside the Old Bailey, London, after his conviction was quashed in 1989. Photo: Photopress Belfast

Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years…

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Gerry Adams The Leader
ArchiveOctober November 2000 IssuePolitics Archives

Gerry Adams The Leader

Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2000
Oct 1, 20003 min read
Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, is the most well-known Irish politician outside the island of Ireland. As a civil rights activist in Northern Ireland in the late sixties, a […]
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William Brennan Champion of Justice
ArchiveOctober November 2000 IssuePolitics Archives

William Brennan Champion of Justice

By Seán Ó Murchu, Contributor
October / November 2000
Oct 1, 20002 min read
During his 34 years with the Supreme Court, Justice William Brennan, Jr. (1906 – 1998) was widely recognized as one of the primary architects of public policy in the country. […]
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Paul O’DwyerCivil Rights Champion
October November 2000 IssuePolitics ArchivesThose we Lost

Paul O’DwyerCivil Rights Champion

By Niall O’Dowd
October / November 2000
Oct 1, 20002 min read
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 […]
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Our Jack
ArchiveHistory ArchivesNovember 1999 IssuePolitics Archives

Our Jack

By Pete Hamill, ContributorNov 1, 199923 min read
Pete Hamill writes on JFK, our Irish American of the Century Somewhere in the shadowy land between myth and history lies the domicile of John F. Kennedy. The first United […]
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A Voice of Reason
1999FeatureIn This Issue 1999June / July 1999Politics Archives

A Voice of Reason

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
June / July 1999
Jun 19, 199916 min read
David Ervine, leader of the Northern Ireland Progressive Unionist Party, spoke to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy on April 20 in New York. The focus of his remarks […]
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Ulster Says Yes
1998FeatureIn This Issue 1998July August 1998 IssuePolitics Archives

Ulster Says Yes

By Deaglán de Brédún

May / June 1998
Jul 1, 19988 min read
The Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote of how strange it was to see trams running and everyday life proceeding normally although the Bolsheviks had taken over the government and begun […]
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