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Hace 1 día · Dos artículos reimpresos de Peter Hadden Imagen: Barricada lealista durante el paro del UWC de mayo de 1974 Hace cincuenta años, esta semana el Consejo de Trabajadores del Ulster (UWC) –una coalición de grupos paramilitares leales, respaldados por algunos políticos unionistas, como Ian Paisley– convocó esta semana una “huelga” en Irlanda del Norte, en oposición al recién creado ...
Hace 5 días · Merlyn Rees, left, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Stanley Orme, centre, and Harold Wilson, arriving at Stormont Castle in 1974. [Source: dailymail.co.uk] Declassified files detail the British government’s secret meetings with loyalist paramilitary group The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1974, and the political support afforded the organisation during its ongoing campaign of violence.
Hace 5 días · Fifty years on from the bombings that killed 33 people, fresh research into contacts between Dublin and London shows the UK believed in 1974 the bombers had been detained
Hace 5 días · It occurred in September 1974 and included Britain’s then prime minister Harold Wilson, Northern Ireland secretary Merlyn Rees and senior civil servants. On the Irish side, there was the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave and foreign minister Dr Garret FitzGerald.
Hace 1 día · Speaking in the House of Commons on the 16th, the Secretary of State, Merlyn Rees, addressed the UWC and UUUC directly: “Your loyalism will lead you to come up against British troops.
Hace 6 días · Speaking to The Irish News, Mr McLaughlin said republicans had not been intimidated by loyalists but Harold Wilson and Merlyn Rees, British prime minister and secretary of state “definitely had...
Hace 5 días · Diarmuid Breatnach (Reading time: 9 mins.)Thirty-five people were killed by bombings on 17 th May 1974, the most in one day during the recent 30 Years War but outside of Ireland and even within it, most people are unaware of that fact. That’s because the perpetrators were not the IRA. And probably also because the victims were killed not just in Ireland but within the Irish state.
