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the yassification of Liam Kennedy from wires and nerves

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Liam Kennedy

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The Provisional IRA was the spearhead or the cutting edge of, as Martin McGuinness described it, ‘the fight for Irish freedom’ or if you prefer the move to coerce 900,000 Protestants into a state that they did not want to be part of.

These figures show that the Provisional IRA was responsible for driving the conflict onwards year and year before admitting defeating in 1994 for its ultimate objective of creating a 32 county republic.

The Provisional IRA proved the dynamic for three decades of political violence and as such was primarily responsible for the Troubles – the Provisional IRA was not about civil rights or defending Catholic communities, it was about achieving a 32 county republic by force of arms.

There is a basis for suggesting that in some instances there is such a thing as an oppressive minority and in that sense, the republican community, and perhaps extending further into the nationalist electorate, can be categorized as an oppressive community.

- Prof Liam Kennedy, here: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/academic-says-republicans-responsible-for-60-of-troubles-deaths-1.3983227

Academic says republicans responsible for 60% of Troubles deaths

Community could be seen as ‘oppressive minority’, according to QUB historian

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Liam Kennedy

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MOPE – a Tale of Two Diasporas

MOPE – a Tale of Two Diasporas

This article appeared in Ceylon Today on Thursday April 28 2016

Susan Sontag: Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.

Shedding Blood in Every Generation

Four years ago, I posted a lengthy article on Groundviewswhich was prompted by a statement in May 2011 by MDMK chief Vaiko in Tamil Nadu. He said that the war for Eelam was not over; Prabhakaran was not dead and…

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The blundering of Ulster unionists allowed a tiny militarist group, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), to infiltrate the Irish Volunteers and catalyse a major revolt against British rule in Ireland. The end result was the partition of Ireland and the partition of the United Kingdom - hardly what Sir Edward Carson and Sir James Craig had set out to achieve.

Liam Kennedy (here: http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/battle-to-thwart-home-rule-may-have-been-won-but-it-was-a-hollow-victory-34266644.html)

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Diarmaid Ferriter - No necessary relationship between communal suffering and broadened human sympathies

Liam Kennedy said in a speech on the Irish famine and later conduct of the diaspora community in America: "No necessary relationship between communal suffering and broadened human sympathies." See here: http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/104412321978/liam-kennedy-said-that-there-is-an-inverse-of-the Diarmaid Ferriter echoed this: "Such experiences lay alongside Irish claims about empathetic commitment to human rights and the dignity of the individual born of the historical experience of colonialism, famine and emigration. Such assertions jarred with the private memoranda of government, such as one from the Department of Justice in relation to the possibility of accepting Chilean refugees in 1974: “Our society is less cosmopolitan than that of Western European countries generally and in consequence, the absorption of even a limited number of foreigners would prove extremely difficult”. But the real fear was communism: the Chilean refugees “are refugees because they are Marxist and probably communists, and it is to be assumed that a significant proportion of their numbers are activists and they are likely . . . to engage in political agitation here”. In more recent decades, it was misplaced fear of the economic consequences of accepting refugees that prevailed. At a conference in 1999, former minister for equality and law reform Mervyn Taylor suggested a common view on refugees and asylum seekers was “these people are a problem, they’re a difficulty, they are going to take our jobs”. What history demonstrated, however, maintained Taylor, was that “when asylum seekers and refugees come to a country they make a contribution to that country out of all proportion to what they take”." See here: http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/diarmaid-ferriter-unravelling-the-myths-about-migration-to-ireland-1.2348880

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There is little benefit or indeed dignity in seeking to trade on another nation's wound.

Liam Kennedy (here)