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A former news editor of The Sunday Times who secretly wrote for Sinn Fein newspaper An Phoblacht during the Troubles has explained why he supported the IRA s campaign.
It doesn t diminish : The legacy of the 1981 hunger strikes, 40 years on
This Monday will mark 40 years since Bobby Sands went on hunger strike. By Sean Murray Saturday 27 Feb 2021, 12:05 AM Feb 27th 2021, 12:05 AM 31,842 Views 40 Comments
ON PAGE 9 of The Irish Times of Friday 27 February 1981, a headline read: “H-Block fast generates little pressure.”
The report outlined how a “low-key atmosphere prevail[ed]” in the run-up to the latest hunger strike. It said the IRA leader in the H-Blocks would be starting the strike alone before being joined at regular intervals by other prisoners.
The article ended: “In the face of an unmoved British government, the straight demand for ‘political status’ is seen by some as ‘unreal’.”
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According to Griffiths, this platinum jubilee collection of city-meets-outdoor wear was inspired by the monarch for today s self-made queens. Without disrespect to Her Majesty and all the images of her on formal occasions when she wears those brightly coloured matching clothes, he told Vogue, I ended up saving all the images of her in her own time.
Max Mara s creative director Ian Griffiths chose the royal (pictured right in King s Lynn in December 2018) as his muse after spending last year s lockdown at home in Suffolk binge-watching The Crown
Presenting its autumn/winter 2021 collection via a virtual runway staged at the Trienalle design museum, models were decked out in heavy tweed, fur coats, over-sized cardigans, calf-length kilts and Tattersall check, all with a modern twist on their heritage country style
26 February 2021
In the 50th anniversary year of the 1971 Communications Agreement between the Falkland Islands and Argentina, Penguin News spoke to a number of Falkland Islanders about their memories of that time (see Penguin News this week) among them former Radio Islands Broadcasting Station Manager Patrick Watts MBE in an exclusive article for Penguin News wrote of his thoughts and recollections.
(Image: An F27 on the temporary Argentine airstrip).
WHEN in late 1970 the Falkland Islands Company (FIC) announced that they would be withdrawing the small freighter/passenger (50) carrying vessel RMS Darwin, which plied monthly between the Islands and Uruguay, it was anticipated by a vast majority of the population that the British Government would automatically, and as a commitment to the Colony, provide a similar type ship to continue the service.