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Eugene McCarthy

Those We Lost

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Ivan Cooper (1944 – 2019) Irish civil rights activist Ivan Cooper died in late June, aged 75. A founding member of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour party, Cooper is best known for his leadership of the anti-internment march in Derry that erupted into 1972’s Bloody Sunday. Born in Killaloo, County Derry, to a Protestant family, Cooper started out as a unionist, … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

Eugene McCarthy Remembered

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
Febuary / March 2006

February 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Eugene McCarthy died at the age of 89 in December. He was born a farmer's son in far-flung Watkins, Minnesota, not the typical urban Irish Catholic of his generation who went into politics. But McCarthy's Irishness was central to his identity, as is evident in his writings as well as the issues about which he was passionate. McCarthy struck those who knew him as a scholar, and … [Read more...] about Eugene McCarthy Remembered

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