Friday 7th July 1972. London. Gerry Adams had been released from detention in order to attend the meeting, along with Martin McGuiness, Séamus Twomey, Seán MacStiofáin, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Ivor Bell, all of whom were flown to London. The meeting took place at the Chelsea home of Mr Paul Channon, then Minister of State forContinue reading “90 Secret Talks: London”
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13 1966 The Times: John Bull’s Political Slum
The Sunday Times, on the 3rd July 1966, coinciding with a royal visit to Northern Ireland, published the article ‘John Bull’s Political Slum’, criticising Britain’s failure to intervene in thegerrymandering of the political architecture of Northern Ireland, and the high levels of unemployment in Catholic communities. This was against the backdrop of three recent killingsContinue reading “13 1966 The Times: John Bull’s Political Slum”
2023
71 Internment
Internment – Operation Demetrius – was reintroduced on Monday 9th August 1971, whereby British Forces arrested 342 individuals in mass arrests – the majority of whom were Catholic Nationalists – in a variety of raids, and held them for questioning in temporary camps. 17 people died over the following two days, 10 of whom wereContinue reading “71 Internment”
The Arms Crisis
Narrative Cards – Proofing and Testing
Final Proofs(?)
Just returned from the local printers (thanks, PDC Greenock!)
“Any man’s death diminishes me…”
“Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind” (No Man is an Island, John Donne, 1572-1631).
Paddy Coyle
Paddy Coyle was only thirteen years old when he was photographed by Pulitzer-prize winner, Clive Limpkin in Derry, holding a petrol bomb and wearing an adult’s Second World War gas mask during the ‘Battle of the Bogside’ in 1969. Coyle would be immortalised as ‘the boy in the mask’, one of the most recognisable imagesContinue reading “Paddy Coyle”
The Troubles 