Posted on 06/24/2005 5:14:00 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite
BELFAST (Reuters) - The IRA admitted on Friday to the 1973 killing of a teenage girl that it had blamed on the British army and apologised to her family who had called on the paramilitaries to accept responsibility.
Kathleen Feeney was shot dead near her home in Londonderry. At the time, the IRA, which put its violent, 30-year campaign against British rule on hold in 1997, blamed British soldiers for the 14-year-old's murder.
"We wish to apologise unreservedly to the Feeney family for the death of Kathleen and all the grief that our actions have caused to them," the IRA said in a statement to the Derry Journal.
British Army commanders in the area said some of their troops came under fire at the time of the incident, but denied any of the soldiers had fired the fatal shots.
Last year the Feeney family asked the IRA to admit its members had killed Kathleen, saying their failure to do so had added to the family's hurt and pain.
Muslims?
It's probably a requirement for RTE reporters! I'm not being fair though, one reporter, by the name of Theresa Mannion - her parents live near me - her political backround (staunch Fine Gael supporters) makes her (I hope) anti-IRA, thankfully there are some *true* patriots left in RTE, hopefully there are some good people in Reuters!!
Typing IRA+Al+Qaida into google!
The only reason there's an Irish Republic today is WWI. The United States demanded it of UK and got it. Without WWI, the Brits would not have allowed independence.
Technically speaking, there's no difference at all between the Dutch and the English.
I think what you are referring to are the nobility anyway. Recall, they were of Norman origin, and derived their privilege from the same source as that of the other British nobility.
They couldn't be killed willy-nilly. On the other hand, the commoners had no privilege in this latest conquest.
http://www.ulsterflash.iofm.net/plo.htm
No doubt they have their own agenda, but they do give you the names of other sources you can check out.
Indeed I did!
A term used by Irishmen and Scots (insulting) to refer to the group of people, (in Ireland, Ulster, etc.) that were loyal to the Protestant Usurper of the British Throne, known as William of Orange.
Well, they managed to turm Irish against Irish, and that is what I meant by the term. If you were Irish Catholic, you had zero rights, and couldn't even own property. If you were Protestant, well, it was a different story.
Amen...I consider it the same :)
Well, we disagree here. The IRA and Michael Collins, made the British suffer intensely. They destroyed their system of intelligence, executed Irish Traitors, and informants, and made holding Ireland a costly problem.
BTW, the Protestants came as immigrants to Ireland, mostly from Scotland and Wales. Remarkably the Scots, Welsh and Irish are similar in appearance (and history), but their languages were different.
The Brits have had worse problems in their history. American entry into WWI REQUIRED certain British concessions. A Free Ireland was one of them.
I'm familiar with the term. I don't live in a bubble over here. :-)
Sounds like our American Supreme Court.
'..all the blood of British soldiers for the next 100 years couldn't make up for the misery the English heaped on Ireland.'
You won't mind me saying then that, in my well-informed and bigotted opinion, things ran a lot better in Ireland under the ' Tans and later I thought the B Specials kept the place in good order in the North.
The Protestants began coming over at the time of Henry VIII, and William of Orange, and Cromwell encouraged this to surplant the Roman Cathoilc population. There were NO Protestants in Ireland until they were brought over.
My apologies. I didn't realize that you were Irish. My Great-Grandfather was, and the term "Orangeman", was used a lot by him. But he lost a brother in the Rebellion of 1916, and was very bitter towards the English.
I don't doubt that what you say is true, I simply believe that Ireland would have achieved independence regardless.
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