Interview with Dixie Elliott

Peace Processing the Memory of the Conflict

Thursday, January 31, 2013

End Impunity! Bernadette McAliskey Bloody Sunday Speech Transcript and Video

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey's Bloody Sunday March for Justice 2013 address as delivered at Free Doire Corner on Sunday the 27th of January. Bernadette McAliskey addressing the rally at this year's Bloody Sunday March For Justice which had the theme 'End Impunity'. Despite a wet, windy, wintery day around 3500 people braved the elements to march in solidarity with the victims of Bloody Sunday and other injustices. This years events gave specific focus to the miner's strike and the Hillsborough...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Dolours Price Archive

"The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant. This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind."  - Dolours Price, 2005 Dolours Price was a prolific writer and often contributed articles to The Blanket. We carry here a selection of her writings, listed in chronological order, with excerpted...

Monday, January 28, 2013

Rest In Peace

Tonight The Pensive Quill carries a guest article written by my wife, Carrie, on the death of our friend Dolours Price. "If Dolours had a big fault, it was perhaps that she lived out too urgently the ideals to which so many others also purported to be dedicated. "She was a liberator but never managed to liberate herself from those ideas. Sometimes we are imprisoned within ideals; sometimes in war atrocious things are done; sometimes hard things have to be done. "Sometimes it is very difficult...

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Flags, here we go again

Belfast activist Davy Carlin, a long time contributor to The Blanket makes a return to article writing with his thoughts on the flags issue that has plagued Belfast since the end of last year. Over recent times we have seen leaders of Nationalism call for border polls while seeing leaders of Unionism once again using a flag to whip up the loyalist working classe...

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Garda Death

The killing of Garda Adrian Donoghue in Louth, described by the Taoiseach as 'cold blooded murder’, hardly qualifies as anything other than an act of wanton brutality that has sent a deluge of anger coursing through Irish societ...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Statement from Prisons Crisis Group on Marian release application

The release of Marian Price to attend her sister Dolours’  funeral would be an act of compassion. Her family and friends have appealed to Justice Minister David Ford to show her some humanity at this time....

Cruel & Contemptible

There follows a statement from the family of Marian Price McGlinchey. We have received news that Marian's application for compassionate parole following the tragic death of her sister Dolours has been refused, despite her being granted bail earlier today...

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Statement by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre on the death of Dolours Price

We wish to express our great sadness at the death of Dolours Price who was both a friend and a valued participant in the Belfast Project and we would like to convey our condolences to her boys, to her sisters and brother and to other members of her famil...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

It Was a War Crime

Sandy Boyer (SB) interviews via telephone Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey (BDM) about next week's Bloody Sunday March in Doire. Radio Free Éireann WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica RadioNew York City19 January 2013SB:  We're going over to County Tyrone, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone to speak to Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey.  Bernadette, thanks very much for being with us.  ...

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Something needs to be done and done soon

The following information pack has been distributed by Derry campaigner Pauline Mellon. Please share the attachment, video and website link below with your contacts....

Monday, January 21, 2013

Hope not Hate

Former Blanket columnist and Unionist commentator, Dr John Coulter, assesses how dissident republicans can take the moral high ground politically within nationalism now that unionism and loyalism have been thrown into confusion over the Union flag protests. The various factions which comprise the dissident republican movement must be highly amused at the assorted baby-faced new generation of young loyalists who appear to be on the brink of achieving what more than a decade of dissident violence could not accomplish – Peter Robinson deposed as...

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Savile: A British Rape Culture

The truth is that the BBC fostered a monster, that much of the media indulged him for many years and that the police, insufficiently curious and doubtless awed by his celebrity, failed to follow up proper lines of inquiry – Stephen Glover Despite the recent report Giving Victims a Voice that found Jimmy Saville a ‘predatory, serial sex offender’, British society likely will never fully navigate its way to the depth of the BBC’s personality’s harmful activities. It will scrape the surface, burrow down a bit, bring this or that to light, paper over...

Friday, January 18, 2013

PSNI Differences in Policing Loyalist Protests as Opposed to Residents Protests

GARC have issued the following statement regarding the PSNI handling of protests.  For the past six week Loyalists, led by the UVF and various factions of the UDA, assisted by the Loyal Orders and Unionist politicians have been engaged in illegal roadblocks across the Six Counties with the vast majority taking place in the Greater Belfast are...

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Gerry McGeough Welcome Home Function

Gerry McGeough is to be released on 29th January 2013. Please show your support for the McGeough family by attending this venue. &nbs...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Zugzwang

While enamoured to neither Bolsheviks nor spies this is the type of fiction I enjoy without getting too excited by it. Steady throughout, it isn’t Stieg Larsson stuff but then few works of fiction are. Turning its pages induces a mild sensation of entering a room already furnished and decorated by the novelist Eric Ambler. Scenes from Epitaph for a Spy were the flashbacks that peppered my reading of Zugzwan...

Monday, January 14, 2013

United States of America: Supreme Court must protect confidentiality of researchers’ sources

The following statement was issued by ARTICLE 19 on 10 January 2013 United States of America: Supreme Court must protect confidentiality of researchers’ sources STATEMENT ARTICLE 19 10 Jan 2013 ARTICLE 19 calls on the US Supreme Court to uphold the constitutional right to protect sources. This right is particularly important for journalists and researchers working internationally, including those working in conflict and post-conflict societies. In its amicus brief for the ‘Belfast Project’ case, ARTICLE 19 argues that failure to grant such...

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Let them eat ...

Violence against women must never be accepted, never excused, never tolerated ... Every girl and woman has the right to be respected, valued and protected - United Nations spokesman Martin Nesirky. RTE reported today that a 29 year old woman had been gang raped in India by seven men after she had boarded a bus. Six men have been arrested and a seventh is now a fugitive. In a country where on average a rape is reported every twenty minutes this incident is potentially explosive because of the enormous similarity it bears to a previous one last...

Friday, January 11, 2013

Get someone - Get anyone.

Radio Free ÉireannWBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica RadioNew York CitySaturday 5 January 2013John McDonagh (JM) and Sandy Boyer (SB) interview via telephone Gerry Conlon (GC) about the convictions of Brendan McConville and J.P. Wooton, known as The Craigavon Two. Anthony McIntyre (AM) contributes comments about the case of Paul McGlinchey. Thanks as always to our transcriber who puts so much effort into ensuring items like this reach a much wider audience....

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Ulster Loyalism, Flag Protests & the failure of zero sum politics

Tonight The Pensive Quill carries an article by Guest Writer Sean Matthews The continuing opposition by loyalists to the decision by Belfast City Council to limit the flying of the Union Jack (bringing it in line with other council chambers) is a product of a deeply sectarian colonial settlement that smothers the importance of class.  The disturbances were pretty predicable in the context of summer riots over parading, intra unionist rivalry and rising anger in traditional protestant working class communities over shortage of jobs, housing...

Monday, January 7, 2013

A Season of Christmas Fear

I am a member of Sinn Fein and I support the position on talking to the police but this is harassment of people on Christmas Eve ... How are you ever going to build public confidence in the police after things like this? This sets things back. Me and other members of my family are disgusted – Councillor Sean McGlinchey I have known Paul McGlinchey almost four decades since when as teenage republicans we first met in prison. He later went on to spend more time on the H Block blanket protest than any other prisoner resisting the British state’s...

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Stop persecution of worker activists and political prisoners in Iran. Free them now!

A piece by Maryam Namazie that first featured on her blog on 28/12/2012 The regime in Iran has again stepped up its persecution of worker activists – from more arrests to harassment of those already in jail and their families. These activists are in prison purely for their trade union activities. They must be freed immediately and unconditionall...

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Hawks of Morning

Malachy Trainor’s Hawks of Morning is a work of cryptic poetry. The reader has to work at deciphering and is best advised to come equipped with some knowledge of the author’s past which helps provide a context to his words.  Otherwise a meaning different from the one intended will be drawn from a poem like Some Other Time....

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Eriu is our Queen

Guest writer David McSweeney with an analysis pinpointing the shortcomings of the Good Friday Agreement. “Eriu is our Queen” - the letters spelt out above a massive tricolour on the hills above West Belfast. It was June of this year, the British Monarch was in town, Irish Republicans wanted to make a political point. It was a brilliant piece of political activism, observable from several miles away. The response to this peaceful, positive political expression? A gang of up to thirty loyalists armed with golf clubs, pipes and hatchets attacked...

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Amy Winehouse

Chas Newkey-Burden is an experienced author having written around 30 books. This version of his biography of Amy Winehouse was published in 2008. An updated one came out within weeks of the singer’s death, for which he took some stick – cashing in and that. There will always be different views about this. There is an argument for being more critical of it had he written nothing previously about her, and rushed to print without doing the heavy lifting at the research end, but his book was already out by the time she died and he might have felt he...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Equal Education Unequal Pay

Kayla Evans is part of a team of designers and researchers that towards the close of last year put together an infographic showing why the gender wage gap in the US continues to be a growing concern.  TPQ is pleased to reproduce the infographic here. ...

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