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national / history and heritage / feature Friday April 01, 2005 10:47 by Niall Meehan
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Historian Brian Murphy will give a talk in Cork on April 15th to address the accusations that Tom Barry was a "serial killer" who lied about the infamous British false surrender at the Kilmichael Ambush of November 1920, and part of an IRA strategy aimed at targeting Protestants during the War of Independence. This article attempts to explain some of the background behind this ongoing historical debate. UPDATE: Audio of talks added on Apr 25th 2005 read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / feature Friday January 28, 2005 23:54 by Shane OCurry
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Community activists paint the Palestinian colours onto Free Derry Wall, an internationally recognised symbol of popular resistance to imperialism, in preparation for two panel discussions. The first, scheduled for this thursday evening and entitled "from the Bogside to Basra" will feature Dr Abdul Al-Jibouri, an Iraqi scientist living in Derry, as well as Eddy Cherry, a former British soldier and war resister. The second, to be held on Saturday, entitled "At a Cross Roads", is a comparative discussion about the road blocks on the road maps to peace in Palestine and Ireland respectively. The speakers are Dr Jamal Zahalka, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) and Mitchel McLaughlin, MLA, chairperson of Sinn Féin. (details of both events below ) read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / feature Sunday January 16, 2005 21:34 by Pádraig Ó Ruairc
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"I am not a Nazi. I am not even pro-German. I am an Irishman fighting for the independence of Ireland" - Sean Russell whose memorial statue in Fairview Park was recently beheaded by an unknown and previously unheard of group of 'anti-fascists'. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / feature Friday December 03, 2004 16:31 by Niall Meehan
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(An Indymedia Volunteer has asked me to introduce and to try and summarise the basis of the dispute over aspects of Irish history which has made some appearances on the site recently. This I attempt to do below – apologies in advance for the length of the ‘summary’) read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / feature Wednesday November 24, 2004 19:12 by Terry
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The tolled Motorway through the Tara and Skryne Valley should not be built for two main reasons. 1) It will destroy our heritage and 2) it will soon become a White Elephant. Instead, Dunshaughlin, Navan and Kells should be bypassed and the existing N3 road should be widened. This would be more than sufficient to deal with the traffic. The National Roads Authority (NRA) forecasts for the traffic levels and the total number of cars in Ireland are flawed because they do not take into account the looming issue of Peak Oil. The growth for the number of cars is based on the rising population, GNP and a rising car per capita rate. This was a reasonable assumption up to now, but Peak Oil changes everything and this continued growth is very unlikely to come to pass. In the image with this comment is a graph of the historic number of registered cars in Ireland for 1976 - 2001 in green and the NRA forecasted number for 2006 - 2041 in bl read full story / add a comment 
derry / history and heritage / feature Sunday October 03, 2004 16:56 by Various from Derry
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Several hundered people took part in this years Civil Rights commemoration in Derry. read full story / add a comment 
cavan / history and heritage / feature Wednesday September 22, 2004 21:27 by Michael Lynch
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Red Branch Heritage Press Release about destruction of the Black Pig's Dyke. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / feature Wednesday June 16, 2004 20:07 by Vincent Salafia
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national / history and heritage / feature Monday April 19, 2004 01:08 by Captain White
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Irish Times Chief Executive asks British Government for help in stamping out "unauthorised" material appearing in the paper. "Secret and personal" letter from the British Ambassador details contacts and refers to then Irish Times Editor Douglas Gageby, a Protestant like Major McDowell, as a "renegade white nigger". read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage / feature Saturday January 31, 2004 16:50 by Vincent Salafia
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Statement by Vincent Salafia, Carrickminder, PRO Save Tara/Skryne Valley Campaign on the proposed motorway through Tara. read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / feature Sunday January 11, 2004 16:46 by Mick O'Toole
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The self-described ‘Soldier of Destiny’, Waterford property developer Martin Cu Cullen (aka ‘Cu Cullen’) has big plans for himself and the Hill of Tara, which lies disgracefully underdeveloped in County Meath read full story / add a comment |
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