Celtic Moment

ive read so many comments about the bloody sunday report and so many people bringing the IRA into it – this was a civil rights march. Catholics had no rights back in those days – similar to the way black people used to be treated in America. Rather than pick up arms and murder like the IRA, they decided to have a civil rights march. Do you not think they had the right to march against this bigotry. Or do you think its acceptable to be treated as second-class citizens based on religion?

It had nothing to do with the IRA (who btw were/are not the only terrorist organisation in Northern Ireland – seems to be the only one some British know about though). The British army murdered innocent people and then lied about it to cover it up. The dead were instead blamed. This report clears them as well as naming the soldiers as the ones responsible. As for the cost, take that up with your government – it doesnt change the fact that innocent people were murdered , not terrorists, but innocent people. I hope that has helped some understand.

I am working on a family tree. My cousin gave me a very old copy of a family tree going back to the 1600′s. It’s very difficult to read so I am trying to put the info I can read/understand into my computer.
For one ancestors info it says:
Johny Green married Abigail Morton on April 11, 1724 (then it gets confusing)
In Bally Hagen Marjallon, N. Ireland

i can’t find anything on the internet about these places. are they spelled wrong? Can you make any sense of it?
Well, it may not have been called Northern Ireland back then…..however, that is where my ancestors lived…….the Northern part of Ireland. Most everything else on the family tree mentions Antrim, Ireland. It is just this one location I am stuck on. Therefore I’m thinking they wrote this part wrong. If I can’t figure out what the correct info is, I will remove it from the family tree.

Whats going on with Power Sharing now?? Is it in place of was it permently scrapped in 1974?
so confussed! :S
o and if it was resumed when and why?

…much about it. I need it for school as we’re doing dancing at lughnasadh soon and apparently it’s relevant to this. I need to know some of the political background, cultural background and celtic background, please? I’d be really grateful if any of you could help me, thank you!

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I need a few reasons for and against Ireland being reunified for English.

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