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Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter, October 5, 2024

October 4, 2024 by 1 Comment

Gerry Conlon outside the Old Bailey, London, after his conviction was quashed in 1989. Photo: Photopress Belfast

Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years later.  Exactly 50 years ago, on Saturday night October 5, 1974, IRA bombs exploded in two pubs in the Surrey town of Guildford, south of London.  But despite a series of trials, appeals, an official inquiry and a coroners inquest, the full story of the attacks is still not … [Read more...] about Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

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September 10, 1923

On this day in 1923, the then Irish Free State was admitted into the League of Nations, the predecessor to today’s United Nations. After the League of Nations was first established in 1919, there were many efforts made by some organizations in Ireland in to join the League. However, this task proved more difficult due to some opinions that joining a body founded by England would make it harder for Ireland to achieve independence. After joining on this day, WT Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council in Ireland, made a speech on the Irish admittance to the League of Nations.

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