ARCHIVE 2002 No. 1 |
December 16, 2001
I started reading about Ireland and about its history in order to understand just a bit of the Irish paradoxes. Although I started from the very beginning the matter was still incomprehensible. I therefore began to write down the headlines in Danish.
In 1998 when I got my own website I wondered what to put there. My family, my career or my garden could not attract much attention. But my Danish survey of the history of Ireland would be different from most other websites, so I uploaded the whole story.
I considered my web-project to be complete by then. However the beginning of 1998 was to become a turning point in the history of Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement created optimism and a new hope of lasting peace. I therefore added new chapters on the peace agreement and on the ups and downs since then. Obviously there is still a way to go before a real peace has been achieved and right now I can't see the end of my project.
A lot of people wrote to me asking for details or references. This has proved the need for a brief Danish version of the history of Ireland. In 2001 more than 50 persons on the average have been visiting my website every day.
However about 10 % of the visitors on my website are non-Scandinavians. I have added this page in order to serve these people with some information about my project and with some of the important references.
I considered reference documents and speeches most interesting in the original English language. I also have to admit that a proper translation of the documents to Danish is not that simple. On the other hand the number of visitors to the reference pages in English has been very limited. Therefore all information in English will be concentrated in this English section of my website together with selected news.
I have no intention of making an English version of the whole story. I have neither the ability nor the capacity to write in English and several excellent sites already offer that sort of information.
It remains to be seen if this section serves the interests of some visitors.
References in English Top
Irish Proclamation of Freedom Read by Patrick Pearse from the Steps of the General Post Office, Dublin, Ireland on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 The Irish Government, June 1997:
Full text of the Good Friday Agreement, April 10, 1998. Investigation into the human rights in Northern Ireland, September 29, 1998
Nobel Peace Price Award, December 11, 1998:
George Mitchell's Peace Principles, November 1999:
Suspension of Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive. February 2000:
Peace process resumed. May 2000
Inspection of IRA weapons dumps, June 2000
An Irish bookshop: Read Ireland
Wesley Johnston's History of Ireland
The CAIN Project (The Northern Ireland Conflict)
Danish Irish Society
Sinn Féin Homepage
The Irish Times
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2002-02-12 16:32:00 EST SEARCH FOR NEW PSNI LEADER WILL BE BROAD The search for Northern Ireland's new Police Chief Constable could go worldwide, it emerged tonight. Members of the Policing Board who meet next week to begin the selection process are also offering a salary of more than £GBP 130,000. 2002-02-05 17:37:00 EST POLICE BOARD MEETS WITH OMBUDSMAN AND FLANAGAN The Northern Ireland Policing Board has held a marathon round of talks centered on the police investigation into the Omagh bombing. The board had been engaged in a full day of discussions over both Police Ombudsman (watchdog) Nuala O'Loan's and police chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan's reports on the investigation which has led to calls for the newly renamed Police Force of Northern Ireland to be removed from leading the investigation. 2002-01-30 17:20:00 EST AHERN BACKS O'LOAN IN OMAGH BOMBING ROW Irish premier Bertie Ahern today threw his weight behind calls by Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman to have a third party investigate the Omagh bombing. 2002-01-30 12:40:00 EST 30 YEARS AFTER: BLOODY SUNDAY REMEMBERED The city of Derry observed a minute's silence at 16:15 GMT today to mark the 30th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The minute's silence was observed at the precise moment in 1972 when British paratroopers fired on a civil rights march, killing thirteen unarmed protesters. Fourteen other people were wounded, one of whom later died. 2002-01-25 16:36:00 EST IRISH GOVERNMENT REITERATES CALL FOR INDEPENDENT OMAGH INQUIRY The Irish Government last night stood by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman's demand for an independent investigation of the Omagh bombing. This was despite yesterday's rejection of the proposal by the Police Service Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan. The Irish premier, Bertie Ahern, said Mrs Nuala O'Loan's recommendation that a team led by a senior investigating officer, independent of the PSNI, should be asked to conduct the Omagh bomb investigation "still stands". 2002-01-24 12:54:00 EST FLANAGAN MEETS WITH OMAGH BOMB RELATIVES One of the main spokesmen for the relatives of the Omagh bomb victims has said they are not happy with the response from PSNI chief constable, Ronnie Flanagan about the handling of the investigation. Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the 1998 bomb attack, was speaking after a five-hour meeting between Sir Ronnie Flanagan and the bereaved relatives in the County Tyrone town. 2002-01-22 17:13:00 EST FIRST CONVICTION FOR OMAGH BOMBING A pub owner from the border town of Dundalk, Colm Murphy, has been convicted of conspiring to cause the Omagh bombing in 1998. The 49-year-old is the first person to be convicted in relation to the bombing, in which 29 people were killed and 200 were injured. 2002-01-21 11:13:00 EST HUME TESTIFIES BEFORE BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY The SDLP's MP for Foyle, John Hume, has spoken of his fears for the Civil Rights march which turned into Bloody Sunday after a confrontation with troops a week earlier. The Foyle MP said that he stayed away from the anti-internment march of January 30 1972 which ended with 13 people shot dead after British Paratroopers opened fire with CS gas and rubber bullets during a civil rights meeting at Magilligan Strand, County Derry, seven days before. 2002-01-21 15:34:00 EST OMAGH POLICE BOOK DISAPPEARED DURING INQUIRY A book detailing terrorist threats vanished from Omagh police station at the height of inquiries into the RUC investigation of the bomb atrocity, it was revealed tonight. It disappeared after senior officers were questioned about warnings in advance of the Real IRA attack which left 29 people dead. 2002-01-18 13:00:00 EST MASSIVE TURNOUT AT ANTI-SECTARIAN RALLIES A demonstration against the recent sectarian violence in Belfast today has been described as one of the largest the city has ever witnessed. The protests were held following the murder of Catholic postman Daniel McColgan and loyalist paramilitary death threats to postal workers and teachers. 2002-01-17 12:00:00 EST HAASS MEETS WITH SINN FEIN IN BELFAST US Special Adviser on Northern Ireland Richard Haass said today he had agreed to disagree with Sinn Fein over its refusal to join the new policing board. But he expressed the hope that republicans would soon join the 19-member board, set up under the Good Friday Agreement, intending hold the new Police Service of Northern Ireland to account. 2002-01-15 14:56:00 EST POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE FOLLOWING DEATH THREATS Postal staff in Northern Ireland have voted to stay away from work indefinitely until a loyalist death threat against Catholic workers is lifted. 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The Red Hand Defenders/UDA has now extended the threat to all Catholic postal workers and school staff and teachers in north Belfast which it says are "legitimate targets". 2002-01-11 13:09:00 EST CALM RETURNS TO ARDOYNE AFTER NIGHT OF RIOTING Students in north Belfast got to school without incident this morning following a night of further clashes in North Belfast again last night. Security cameras are to be installed in a part of north Belfast which has seen two nights of clashes between members of the nationalist and loyalist communities. 2002-01-10 14:09:00 EST ARMED GUNMEN ATTACK SECOND BELFAST SCHOOL An armed loyalist gang has damaged cars parked in a Catholic secondary school in north Belfast. The police said they were investigating the attack on Our Lady of Mercy Girls' Secondary School by six men carrying crowbars. Shortly before 1100 GMT the men went into the car park of the school on Bilston Road. Eyewitnesses said at least one of them was armed with a gun. 2002-01-09 13:27:00 EST THREE SHOT AS NORTH BELFAST VIOLENCE ESCALATES Serious rioting has broken out in north Belfast after Catholic pupils were blocked by loyalists from leaving a Catholic primary school. Following the incident at Holy Cross Girls' Primary School, what police have described as "serious street disturbances" broke out nearby at the Ardoyne Road roundabout and on the Crumlin Road. 2002-01-09 11:47:00 EST TROUBLE AT HOLY CROSS SCHOOL BEGINS AGAIN New trouble has flared today at the flashpoint Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast where loyalists had been preventing Catholic school children from attending their school via the Glenbryn area of Ardoyne. 2002-01-04 12:27:00 EST LOYALIST KILLED BY HIS OWN BOMB Police in Northern Ireland believe that a teenager killed in an explosion in Coleraine, County Derry last night may have been preparing to throw a pipe-bomb. William Moore Campbell, a 19-year-old Protestant, from Winston Way in the Heights area of the town, died in an explosion just yards from his home late last night. 2002-01-02 08:59:00 EST LOYALISTS ACCUSED OF MURDER BID IN NORTH BELFAST Loyalists have been today accused of attempted murder after a Catholic man was stabbed at a sectarian interface in north Belfast. The 43-year-old father-of-five is in a stable condition in hospital after being attacked near his home in Newington Street in the Limestone Road area. 2001-12-21 13:59:00 EST DEATH THREATS MADE AGAINST OMAGH INFORMER Death threats have been made against a man at the center of a public row between Northern Ireland's chief constable and police ombudsman. Bullets were said to have been sent in the post to the special branch informer, known under the alias Kevin Fulton. 2001-12-19 14:49:00 EST SDLP CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT OMAGH INVESTIGATION Urgent changes are needed to the police service after the Northern Ireland ombudsman's devastating report into the Omagh inquiry, the nationalist SDLP said today. 2001-12-17 16:33:00 EST DECOMMISSIONING DATE EXTENDED Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland are to be given another five years to decommission, under legislation unveiled today by the British government. Read the full stories at The Irish American Information Service |
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