Author Archive: iauc

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Keynote speaker Elizabeth Creely, San Francisco Irish Consulates Heritage and Cultural officer. Saint Joseph’s Cemetery Modesto California

The Irish American Unity Conference (IAUC), an august organisation working for justice and peace in Ireland, has recognised the work of Paper Trail with a donation to the charity in the run-up to St. Patrick’s Day. The gift from the the renowned Irish American group will pay much of Paper […]