In Remembrance

Those We Lost

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2018/06/mary-gallagher/">Mary Gallagher</a>, Assistant Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2019-archive/august-september-2019/">August / September 2019</a> 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

The Voice of the Dispossessed

By Jim Dwyer, Contributor
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by </a> By Jim Dwyer, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2002-archive/june-july-2002/">June / July 2002</a> Leave a Comment

February 2, 2002 marked the centenary of John Steinbeck's birth. Jim Dwyer writes about the great American writer's Irish Roots. ℘℘℘ All the great novels and stories of John Steinbeck slice into the American experience, clear to the bone. They are set in California, or along Route 66, where the Joads trekked across the Southwest from the Dust Bowls. And Steinbeck himself, born … [Read more...] about The Voice of the Dispossessed

December 2, 1999

On this day in 1999, the Good Friday Agreement came into effect. Both British and Irish governments formally notified one another that the necessary arrangements and agreements would be met. This formal ceremony took place on this day at the headquarters for Department of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs Minister David Andrews and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Mandelson jointly signed the agreement at the Iveagh House on St. Stephen’s Green.

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