A court awarded £1.5 million in 2022 as compensation to survivors of a terrorist attack in Northern Ireland that involved collusion between British soldiers and paramilitary forces. But those responsible for controlling the ‘Miami Showband’ killers have still not been held accountable. The Miami Showband Massacre ANNE CADWALLADER 12 January 2022 The Miami Showband –… Read More Bombing the ‘Irish Beatles’ – who ordered their murder?
Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook. How Britain Lost Ireland. What are the origins of the Irish War of Independence? What impact did the First World War have on Irish efforts for Home Rule? What was the mood in Ireland following the bloody Easter Rising of 1916? And, who was Éamon de Valera, the man who dominated… Read More “Let Me Carry Your Cross for Ireland, Lord”
Daffodils for Gravestones by John Waters This 2008 documentary, Where Was Your Family During the Famine?, in which I feature as one of three subjects of the titular question, has mysteriously entered the public domain on the last couple of weeks. It is, for me, an odd and affecting timing, since — in the timbre of radically… Read More Ireland’s John Waters. Locating Family During the Irish Famine
