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Kevin McArevey

Belfast and Young Plato

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter November 13, 2021

November 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment

In just a few weeks, Ireland - and the world - will mark the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”  That was the gruesome, January 1972 day when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Derry, killing over a dozen, and sending the Northern Ireland Troubles into a violent new phase. All those bullets and bombs have made it difficult to tell more intimate … [Read more...] about Belfast and Young Plato

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