Sandy Boyer with his weekly update on what Radio Free Eireann is bringing to our living rooms this Saturday.
Radio Free Eireann will be back on the air this Saturday May
31 from 1-2pm New York time to raise the funds needed to keep WBAI on the air.
Alfie Gallagher in an extensive interview with Anthony McIntyre probes some of the issues at the centre of the Boston College oral history archive battle. It featured on his blog, Left From The West today 29 May 2014.
This is the transcript of an interview I conducted with Anthony McIntyre via email. McIntyre is a former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner. He spent 18 years in Long Kesh, including 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no-work protests against criminal status for republican prisoners. These protests eventually led to the 1981 Hunger Strike.
This is the transcript of an interview I conducted with Anthony McIntyre via email. McIntyre is a former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner. He spent 18 years in Long Kesh, including 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no-work protests against criminal status for republican prisoners. These protests eventually led to the 1981 Hunger Strike.
The late Brian Mór, with his customary caustic take on political events as he saw them through the eyes of an artist.
Pauline Mellon with a piece on the elections. It featured earlier today in The Diary of a Derry Mother, 25 May 2015. Pauline Mellon is a Derry blogger, rights activist and a social justice campaigner.
I love election time. I love the hype, the camaraderie, the propaganda
and I never fail to be amazed by how far some people are prepared to
stoop in the game of political one-upmanship.
This election time has been particularly dramatic what with the demise of NI21 and events in Derry. Events ranging from John Hume's brother being escorted by the PSNI from the counting booth over an incident involving his son-in-law, a Sinn Fein Councillor's questioning if she had been set up to fail by the party and last but by no means the least the SDLP's withdrawal of support for one of their sitting councillors just two days before the election.
I love election time. I love the hype, the camaraderie, the propaganda
and I never fail to be amazed by how far some people are prepared to
stoop in the game of political one-upmanship. This election time has been particularly dramatic what with the demise of NI21 and events in Derry. Events ranging from John Hume's brother being escorted by the PSNI from the counting booth over an incident involving his son-in-law, a Sinn Fein Councillor's questioning if she had been set up to fail by the party and last but by no means the least the SDLP's withdrawal of support for one of their sitting councillors just two days before the election.
Tonight The Pensive Quill carries a statement by Carrie Twomey
Neither myself on his behalf nor Anthony have requested asylum. I have never worked for Boston College and did not do any work, paid or unpaid, on the Belfast Project.
However, I have been in contact with the US Consulate in Belfast and the Embassy in Dublin since the start of this nightmare asking for help and have maintained contact throughout. I have never made a secret of this, and have referred to it in numerous interviews. It has been made clear to me throughout my dialogue with the State Department, in no uncertain terms, that Anthony is not ever going to be allowed into the US.
Neither myself on his behalf nor Anthony have requested asylum. I have never worked for Boston College and did not do any work, paid or unpaid, on the Belfast Project.
However, I have been in contact with the US Consulate in Belfast and the Embassy in Dublin since the start of this nightmare asking for help and have maintained contact throughout. I have never made a secret of this, and have referred to it in numerous interviews. It has been made clear to me throughout my dialogue with the State Department, in no uncertain terms, that Anthony is not ever going to be allowed into the US.
The cultic mindset that grips Sinn Fein has been on public display lately in the wake of the arrest of its party leader. The imagery that best graphically defined the demented derangement of cultism was the lost child shot of MEP Squeaky Anderson being consoled by Martin McGuinness because bad men had come and stolen the leader.
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| Ireland's Scientologists |
When Gerry Adams denies IRA membership it means that people like myself … have to carry the responsibility for all those deaths, for sending men out to die and sending women out to die, and Gerry was sitting there … trying to stop us from doing it? I'm disgusted by it because it's so untrue and everybody knows it." Brendan Hughes.
Another from the great work of late Brian Mor
BBC Radio Ulster
The Stephen Nolan Show
(begins time stamp 17:31)
SN: The former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison with us this morning. Good Morning to you, Danny.
DM: Good Morning, Stephen.
SN: Good Morning. Shaun Woodward has said that this is a tense and dangerous time for Northern Ireland. Is it?
Sandy Boyer with a brief outline of what Radio Free Eireann is doing this weekend.
This coming Saturday, May 17 from 1-2 pm New York time, Radio Free
Eireann will interview leading Irish journalist Suzanne Breen about why Gerry
Adams wants everyone to know that the Police Service of Northern Ireland called
him an MI5 agent.
Since Martyn Frampton’s Legion of the Rearguard (see Saoirse 289), an armada of publications on modern-day militant Irish Republicanism has been published. Dieter Reinisch reviews John F. Morrison's book on republicanism. Dieter Reinisch is a historian and lecturer in Celtic Studies and Irish History at the University of Vienna, Austria. The review was published in Saoirse 325: May 2014.
In early 2014, Bloomsbury added another title in the ever-growing list of researches on “Dissident Irish Republicanism” with the publication of John F. Morrison’s The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicans: The role and impact of organizational splits. The book appeared in the series ‘New Directions in Terrorism Studies’. The series editors Max Taylor, PM Currie and John Horgan are well-known names in the field. In 2011, Currie and Taylor edited the volume Dissident Irish Republicanism (Continuum International Publishing Group); John Horgan published Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists (Oxford University Press) in 2013.
In early 2014, Bloomsbury added another title in the ever-growing list of researches on “Dissident Irish Republicanism” with the publication of John F. Morrison’s The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicans: The role and impact of organizational splits. The book appeared in the series ‘New Directions in Terrorism Studies’. The series editors Max Taylor, PM Currie and John Horgan are well-known names in the field. In 2011, Currie and Taylor edited the volume Dissident Irish Republicanism (Continuum International Publishing Group); John Horgan published Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists (Oxford University Press) in 2013.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
The Dark Side will only bring you strife
It always leads to a cell way up in Antrim
And forces Errnst Röhm Storey to throw a tantrum
so...
Always look on the Bright Side of life
It ain't gone away you know
Guest writer Larry Hughes with a review of a book on the life of Jim O’Donovan, (Director of Chemicals) DC on the IRA GHQ Staff during the War of Independence and on the Anti-Treaty side in the Civil War. O'Donovan was also the architect of the S-Plan and IRA German link man during WW2.
- Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Perhaps Jim O'Donovan was all three. Perhaps he is best understood as a disturbed product of his disturbed times, but there is no doubt he was disturbed. Irish Independent review.
Guest Writer David McSweeney with a piece on the arrest of Gerry Adams.
The Sinn Fein press conference held following the release of Gerry Adams laid bare many issues.
In response to questions following his statement Adams stated in reference to the legislation under which he was detained “it denies citizens all their rights”.
Seventeen years after the Stormont/GFA deal and the six county state is being run on the basis of legislation which one of the architects of the deal acknowledges denies all rights to citizens. Adams’ admission makes all the feigning of not understanding the opposition to the GFA all the more stomach churning. Mr Adams feeble attempts to equate political opposition to British rule in Ireland with armed action or violence are tiresome and threadbare.
In response to questions following his statement Adams stated in reference to the legislation under which he was detained “it denies citizens all their rights”.
Seventeen years after the Stormont/GFA deal and the six county state is being run on the basis of legislation which one of the architects of the deal acknowledges denies all rights to citizens. Adams’ admission makes all the feigning of not understanding the opposition to the GFA all the more stomach churning. Mr Adams feeble attempts to equate political opposition to British rule in Ireland with armed action or violence are tiresome and threadbare.
In-depth interview: Anthony McIntyre and the Boston Tapes
Peter Kearney
YouTube
Uploaded: 7 May 2014
Anthony Mc Intyre and the Boston Tapes
International Politics interview with Anthony Mc Intyre over the fall out from the Boston tapes - Gerry Adams and Jean Mc Conville
Peter Kearney (PK) interviews Anthony McIntyre (AM) about the Boston College tapes.
PK: Much of this current scenario is to do with the fact that Boston had to let go of the tapes when previously they said that they wouldn't have to let go of the tapes. And how much of it this current scenario to do with the fact that Gerry Adams won't admit that he was in the IRA?
Peter Kearney
YouTube
Uploaded: 7 May 2014
Anthony Mc Intyre and the Boston Tapes
International Politics interview with Anthony Mc Intyre over the fall out from the Boston tapes - Gerry Adams and Jean Mc Conville
Peter Kearney (PK) interviews Anthony McIntyre (AM) about the Boston College tapes.
PK: Much of this current scenario is to do with the fact that Boston had to let go of the tapes when previously they said that they wouldn't have to let go of the tapes. And how much of it this current scenario to do with the fact that Gerry Adams won't admit that he was in the IRA?
Sandy Boyer with what is airing this weekend on Radio Free Eireann.
This coming Saturday, May 10, Radio Free Eireann will be on the air for two hours, from 1-3 pm New York time, to raise desperately needed funds to keep WBAI on the air. If you can contribute $75 we will thank you with a newly published book, The Spirit of Resistance - a History of Physical Force Republicanism in Ireland and America by Seamus Metress PhD. Seamus Metress will be our guest in the first hour. His book is only available from Radio Free Eireann.
The republican party éirÃgà is contesting local government elections in the North. Its campaign is facing aggressive behaviour which the party has likened to fascism.
The party has no relationship with The Pensive Quill. Some of its membership is openly critical of the Boston College oral history project and have made their position very forthrightly. That is their prerogative. They have every right to express their opposition to that project, even stridently.
The party has no relationship with The Pensive Quill. Some of its membership is openly critical of the Boston College oral history project and have made their position very forthrightly. That is their prerogative. They have every right to express their opposition to that project, even stridently.
Pauline Mellon with a piece that initially featured on her blog The Diary of a Derry Mother.
The Boston College Oral History Project has featured high in the media recently but for all the wrong reasons. The project consists of testimonies relating to the troubles from contributors from both republican and loyalist backgrounds and at least one member of the British Security forces. The project was carried out on the understanding that the testimonies would be released after the death of each contributor. The purpose of the project was to allow people to tell their stories and record information from primary sources.
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