"Proud to be a Baby Prod" is the slogan on the infant bibs that adorn many small children during the North's marching season. But a new survey has confirmed what was obvious to most observers: that children in the six counties are following the same sectarian ways as their parents. Three-year-old Catholics in the North are twice as likely as Protestant children of the same … [Read more...] about Sectarianism Filters Down to Next Generation
Northern Ireland
Women in N.I. Politics
On June 5, 2002, Maureen Murray of The Northern Ireland Women's Initiative (NIWI) hosted a luncheon at her home in New York City to launch a new fundraising campaign to announce the next phase of DemocraShe, a six-week comprehensive training program in politics, policy and media for women in Northern Ireland. NIWI successfully trained 102 women from eight political parties for … [Read more...] about Women in N.I. Politics
George Mitchell on the Middle East & Northern Ireland
CAUTION IS ADVISED WHEN MAKING COMPARISONS BETWEEN AREAS AS COMPLICATED AND DIVERGENT AS NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE MIDDLE EAST. BUT AS THE VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST INTENSIFIED, DIPLOMATS AND PEACE-MAKERS STRAIN TO FIND A WAY FORWARD BY EXAMINING THE DYNAMICS THAT SOLIDIFIED NEW POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND BROUGHT A PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM THAT THE … [Read more...] about George Mitchell on the Middle East & Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday in New York
Hidden Truths -- Bloody Sunday 1972 examined one of the great tragedies of the Troubles in Northern Ireland -- the shooting of thirteen Irish civil rights protestors by British soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972. The International Center of Photography exhibition in New York was remarkable for bringing together the public -- the classic media photography … [Read more...] about Bloody Sunday in New York
Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored
A report on the Omagh atrocity has heavily criticized the controversial Special Branch of the Northern Irish police force for allegedly failing to act on an informer's warning that dissident republicans intended to launch an attack in the County Tyrone town. A wave of disgust greeted the news that the warning had been received 11 days before the massive Real IRA bomb ripped the … [Read more...] about Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored