Joe Cahill

News: Joe Cahill Laid to Rest

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
October / November 2004

October 1, 2004 by </a> By Frank Shouldice, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2004-archive/october-november-2004/">October / November 2004</a> Leave a Comment

Joe Cahill, former I.R.A. chief of staff, died on July 23 at his Andersonstown home in Belfast after a short illness. The 84-year-old was buried after a huge funeral cortege carried his remains to the Republican plot at Milltown Cemetery. Cahill was honorary vice-president of Sinn Féin, and the party's current president Gerry Adams paid homage to his friend at the … [Read more...] about News: Joe Cahill Laid to Rest

IRA Dispose of Weapons

By Emer Mullins, Contributor
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by </a> By Emer Mullins, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2002-archive/december-january-2002/">December / January 2002</a> Leave a Comment

An historic breakthrough was made in the Northern Ireland peace process at the end of October when the first IRA arms were put permanently beyond use in a move monitored by the International Commission on Decommissioning. In the early hours of October 23 General John de Chastelain oversaw the disposal of what was called a "sizable quantity" of the IRA's weapons, a move which … [Read more...] about IRA Dispose of Weapons

September 27, 2000

Thirty-three years after the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses was released, Ireland finally decided to lift the ban on the film. Many consider Joyce’s great novel to be “unfilmable.” However, Joseph Strick, an idealistic American director, decided to take up the project. His adaptation, much like the book, drew much controversy. Many scenes were cut at its screening at the Cannes Film Festival. In Ireland, film censors unilaterally banned the film saying that it was “subversive to public morality.” Ulysses was the second film to have the ban lifted, following Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1999.

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