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Fans Protest the Cancellation of BBC America’s Copper

Photo: Kevin Ryan and Tom Weston Jones in Copper
By Matt Skwiat
October 4, 2013

October 4, 2013 by Photo: Kevin Ryan and Tom Weston Jones in Copper<br/>By Matt Skwiat<br/>October 4, 2013 Leave a Comment

The beloved BBC American television show Copper was abruptly cancelled last month, after its second season. The sudden demise of the show has caught most its fans off-guard and left many with unanswered questions. Premiering last August on the then new BBC America channel, Copper seemed destined for longevity. Created and directed by executive producer Tom Fontana with Academy … [Read more...] about Fans Protest the Cancellation of BBC America’s Copper

The Irish Coppers

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
October / November 2012

September 25, 2012 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/tom-deignan/">Tom Deignan</a>, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2012-archive/october-november-2012/">October / November 2012</a> 6 Comments

The evolution of the Irish-American policeman – in real life and on screen. In the classic 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon entitled “Bugs and Thugs,” everybody’s favorite animated rabbit gets himself caught up with Rocky and Mugsy, a couple of bank robbers who flee the scene of the crime and head off to a rural safe house. Soon enough, Bugs Bunny fakes the sound of a police siren … [Read more...] about The Irish Coppers

December 5, 1921

Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. The Anglo-Irish treaty split many and on this day in 1921 Prime Minister David LLoyd-George said that rejection by the Irish would result in “immediate and terrible war.”

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