HISTORIC NI AGREEMENT GIVES HOPE FOR FUTURE: Deaglán de Bréadún, Northern Editor of The Irish Times, describes an epic week in the history of the North of Ireland culminating in the historic peace deal. ℘℘℘ I have been privileged to cover two truly epic stories in my career as a journalist. One was the mass migration of the Kurds from northern Iraq into Iran and Turkey … [Read more...] about The Dawn of a New Peace
Gerry Adams
McGuinness v. Maginnis
By Emer Mullins
May/June 1995
He has been named the second most powerful man in Britain after Rupert Murdoch by Esquire magazine. He has been named Britain's number one terrorist. And a U.S. report identified him as a leader of the Provisional IRA. It doesn't bother him at all. Martin McGuinness, urbane, charismatic, self-assured, has the unadorned adulation of most of the Republican community in the … [Read more...] about McGuinness v. Maginnis
The State of the Irish Lobby
By Eamon Lynch
January/February 1995
Will the political events of November effect a change in the American role in the Northern Ireland peace process? The mid-term election in the United States produced a Republican landslide, and cost some noted Irish-Americans their seats, but the results are not as worrying for the Irish government and Sinn Féin in terms of the peace process as one might expect. However … [Read more...] about The State of the Irish Lobby
The American Role in the Ceasefire
By Emer Mullins
November/December 1994
Emer Mullins reports on how Irish America flexed its muscle to help the historic peace process in Northern Ireland. It ended, finally, after months of speculation, months of hope, and months of hard work by the strongest Irish American lobby yet seen in Washington. The IRA declared a "complete cessation" of military activity on August 31, 1994, bringing to a close a terrible … [Read more...] about The American Role in the Ceasefire