Author Archive: iauc

 
Ballymurphy Massacre families call on Taoiseach to take interstate case against Legacy Bill

Ballymurphy Massacre families call on Taoiseach to take interstate case against Legacy Bill

THE Ballymurphy Massacre families have called on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar not to leave victims behind. Mr Varadkar was at Newforge Conference and Sports Complex as part of an £850 million peace funding announcement for the North. Read the rest of the article

 
Great Britain’s Great Shame, New York Times and Washington Post Ads

Great Britain’s Great Shame, New York Times and Washington Post Ads

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Say no to Amnesty for British State killers

Say no to Amnesty for British State killers

 
Robert Emmet Commemoration

Robert Emmet Commemoration

September 18, 2022 | Noon | Golden Gate Park Band Concourse The statue of Robert Emmet, which stands in front of the Academy of Science in the San Francisco Golden Gate Park, was dedicated by Eamon De Valera 102 years ago this September. Every year since, the Irish community in […]

 
Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement

Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement

August 21, 2023 The Rt. Hon. Rishi Sunak Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London, Great Britain SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister Sunak: In August of 2021, our committee wrote to your predecessor, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, expressing our deep dismay at his decision to breach the New Decade, New Approach […]

 
Relatives of McGurk’s bar victims criticise ombudsman over fingerprint evidence

Relatives of McGurk’s bar victims criticise ombudsman over fingerprint evidence

Updated / Wednesday, 16 Aug 2023 The Office of the Police Ombudsman Northern Ireland has been criticised for not including fingerprint evidence which was given to it in the days before publishing a key report into the 1970s bombing of McGurk’s Bar. Fifteen people were killed in the blast at […]

 
IAUC Calls British Response ‘Appalling’

IAUC Calls British Response ‘Appalling’

By Irish Echo Staff The Irish American Unity Conference has described as “appalling” a letter from the British government which, it says, “which lays bare the UK’s disdain for Irish America.’ The letter, penned by Lord Caine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is on behalf of the British […]

 
The British Government: beyond shame

The British Government: beyond shame

A Letter from Ireland a Chara, The British Government appoints a Secretary of State to “govern” the North of Ireland. I say appoints as none have a mandate in the North. The incumbent is Chris Heaton-Harris elected by the good people of Daventry (you will have to Google it). Mr. […]

 
The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government

The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government

The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government which lays bare the UK’s disdain for Irish America. Lord Caine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, writing “on behalf of the UK Government,” basically tells the US and Ireland to stay out of Northern […]

 
Letter from Lord Caine, July 24 2023

Letter from Lord Caine, July 24 2023

24 July 2023 Our ref: MC/23/354 Dear Mr Kissel, Thank you for your letter of 29 June to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP. I am responding on behalf of the UK Government. The UK hugely values the US contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process and […]

 
Stormont Set to Sit Idle Through Fall

Stormont Set to Sit Idle Through Fall

By Anthony Neeson There seems very little chance of the Stormont Assembly re-establishing in the autumn. Last week, the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris, met with Northern Ireland’s political parties to try and break the political deadlock. Northern Ireland has been without a government for the past 18 […]

 
Letter from Peter Kissel to the Prime Minister June 29, 2023

Letter from Peter Kissel to the Prime Minister June 29, 2023

His Excellency Rishi Sunak, MP Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister No. 10 Downing Street London, United Kingdom SW1A 2AA The Irish American Unity Conference calls on the United Kingdom to restore democracy in Northern Ireland by requiring the Democratic Unionist Party to take up their seats in the […]

 
Mark Thompson, RFJ CEO, addresses 51st Anniversary of Springhill Massacre commemoration

Mark Thompson, RFJ CEO, addresses 51st Anniversary of Springhill Massacre commemoration

 
Joe Clarke, one of the ‘Hooded Men’, has died aged 71

Joe Clarke, one of the ‘Hooded Men’, has died aged 71

Suzanne Breen, June 12, Belfast Telegraph An internee who was tortured by the Army and RUC Special Branch has died without receiving the apology he had asked for. Joe Clarke (71) was one of 14 ‘Hooded Men’ used as human guinea pigs for torture methods in August 1971. Speaking in […]

 
Northern Ireland Citizens Demand a Government

Northern Ireland Citizens Demand a Government

The council elections in the North of Ireland demonstrate an undeniable truth: voters overwhelmingly have directed their representatives to get back to work and earn their pay. The Democratic Unionist Party, espousing a one-note message of “Just Say No” to government, received a paltry 23% of the vote. Sinn Fein […]