Joe Kennedy III, the new US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, has outlined the goals for the relationship between the US and Northern Ireland. Joe Kennedy III, who was recently appointed as the new US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, has shared his first remarks since coming into the role. […]
On 9 July 1972 the British Army shot dead five civilians including three teenagers and a Catholic priest in the Upper Springfield area. All victims were innocent and unarmed at the time of their deaths. Next week on 25 January the families of the Springhill-Westrock massacre will be hosting […]
THE MP for West Belfast has described the latest rou nd of ‘Levelling Up’ grant awards from the British government as a “Tory power grab”. Sinn Féin’s Paul Maskey was speaking after the British Government announced that 10 projects in the North would receive a collective £71m from the £2.1bn […]
Please reach out to your Member of Congress and ask them to support this new resolution in support of the FULL implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. The number is HR33 and it is a bi-partisan resolution that is seeking new co-sponsors. We have many new members of the House […]
A FORMER republican prisoner and Sinn Féin councillor will be remembered as “a friend to so many”. The funeral of Bobby Lavery (74) took place on Thursday morning at St Patrick’s Church in Donegall Street in Belfast. Bobby died on December 26 in San Francisco, California. A Carrick Hill native […]
The IAUC held its annual Robert Emmet Commemoration on Sunday, September 18 in Robert Emmet Part in Washington DC. Ireland’s new Ambassador to the US, Geraldine Byrne Nason, was the keynote speaker. Ambassador Nason discussed the enduring strong ties between Ireland and Irish America that resulted in the Good Friday […]
From left is Patti Flaus, Mary Ellen Myers, Shirley Murphy and Joy Short with former deportee, Malachy Mc Allister in Derry.
Members of IAUC braved the 10 degree weather to march in the 2022 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh on Saturday, March 12th.
March 4, 2022…Once again, the world has witnessed a brutal imperialist regime, bristling with deadly weaponry, invade a neighboring country and murder thousands of innocent civilians. Vladimir Putin will be condemned in history alongside such arch-villains as Hitler and Stalin, both of whom invaded Poland in similar manner. This act […]
British gov to produce an ‘official’ history of Northern Ireland conflict, Sinn Féin Representative for North America reacts. Ciarán Quinn @IrishCentral Nov 22, 2021 The Irish Central In this personal piece Ciarán Quinn, Sinn Féin Representative for North America, responding to reports of British Government plans to produce an ‘official’ […]
IAUC Secretary Sarah McAuliffe with Pittsburgh IAUC member Lorraine Starsky enjoying the Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh on September 18th.
A Chara, The word “catastrophic” may be over-used but we fear it is justified responding to the British government’s deeply cynical proposals to bar all families bereaved in the conflict in Northern Ireland (including families living in the Republic of Ireland, Britain and elsewhere) from access to justice. Although the […]
The time to set a firm date for a referendum on Irish unity is now. The legal requirement for a border poll as envisioned in the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement needs to be embraced and facilitated by the Irish and British governments. The GFA provides that a poll on […]
The conviction by a Minnesota jury of police officer Derek Chauvin on second- and third-degree murder charges brings a much needed sense of relief, and hope, for all of us who believe in equal justice under the law. The guilty verdicts are an important new link in the arc of […]
