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Lawyers on Loyalist Hit List

By Brendan Anderson, Contributor
October / November 2002

October 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Loyalist killers planned to assassinate not only human rights lawyer Pat Finucane but also two of his Belfast colleagues, a senior British police officer has discovered. Belfast lawyers Oliver Kelly and p.J. McGrory were on a Loyalist hit list compiled with the help of RUC Special Branch officers and British military intelligence agents. The Finucane murder is currently the … [Read more...] about Lawyers on Loyalist Hit List

Sister Act

By Sarah Buscher, Contributor
August / September 2001

August 1, 2001 by 1 Comment

How a committed sister freed her brother from prison. In 1980 the body of Katharina Brow was found in her trailer home in Ayer, Massachusetts. She had been stabbed to death and robbed of money and jewelry. Suspects were questioned but the case languished for two years until an anonymous phone call tipped the police that Kenny Waters had admitted to the crime. Kenny … [Read more...] about Sister Act

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A Roundabout Theater Company revival of Brian Friel’s famous 1964 play “Philadelphia Here I Come!” opens at the Criterion Center in New York. The production starred Robert Sean Leonard as Gareth O’Donnell as well as a supporting cast of notable Irish character actors, including Milo O’Shea, Pauline Flanagan, Leo Leyden and Jarlath Conroy. “This 1964 work established the Irish playwright as one of international stature,” the New York Times wrote in its review, “30 years later, it seems no less fresh and vital.”

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