Witness Trees
WITNESS TREES. I used to have an old hard backed copy of Nora Connolly O’Brien’s; ‘Portrait Of A Rebel Father’. This wonderful account of James Connolly’s life, as recalled by his daughter, is a must ...
25 Aug 20207min
Join the Campaign to Protect Moore Street and the 1916 Battlefield site
This podcast is going to deal with the shameful refusal of successive Irish governments to develop a national monument, a cultural quarter, a revolutionary quarter, a freedom quarter, a 1916 quarter o...
13 Aug 202013min
The last time I met Kieran Doherty
Sunday, August 2nd is the anniversary of the death on hunger strike in 1981 of Andersonstown man Kieran Doherty. Normally, August is also when Sinn Féin holds its National Commemoration in remembrance...
30 Jul 202011min
Celebrating the Twelfth
This week I thought I would talk about the 12th in this podcast. When I mentioned a few days ago to some friends that I was going to do this podcast about the 12th and asked them what they thought if ...
16 Jul 202012min
Leading the Opposition
The big spin from last week and the formation of the new government in Dublin is that civil war politics is dead and gone. But the truth is that for most career politicians they have been dead for d...
1 Jul 202011min
Bodenstown and the re-alignment of Irish politics
Traditionally the third Sunday of June is when Irish republicans from across the island of Ireland gather at the graveside of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown. Such annual commemorations have been taking plac...
17 Jun 202010min
You only die once. You live everyday.
You only die once.You live everyday.I first met Martin McGuinness shortly before he & I travelled to London in 1972 as part of a delegation to negotiate with the British govt. Martin would have been s...
2 Jun 20207min
Long Kesh Escapes
Last week the British Supreme Court quashed two convictions I had received in 1975 for attempting to escape from Long Kesh internment camp. It was a long ten year battle. The case also revealed the fa...
20 Mai 202010min
