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A book review with the knives out.

Dolours Price's dedication to the cause of freedom for Catholics in Northern Ireland saw her planning the 1973 bombings in Belfast and being imprisoned and force-fed mid-hunger strike.

Black clouds have beset thy birth, And your people die like morning stars, That your light may grace the earth. – “Stars of Freedom,” 1981 H-Block, Long Kesh Prison Camp ℘℘℘ Watching Bobby Sands die in 1981, much of the world realized, finally, that the young IRA soldier and hunger striker was a freedom fighter, and the view of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland forever changed. It was no longer seen as two Irish factions fighting over who had the better Jesus, but rather a struggle for human rights. Sands’ death was another chapter in Ireland’s long history of marty...

Conquest Resources Limited: Conquest Closes Private Placement Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 17, 2020) - Conquest Resources Limited (TSXV: CQR) is pleased to announce that it has closed the final tranche of its previously announced $850,000 non-brokered private placement flow-through financing. Conquest today closed the final tranche of the financing involving the placement of 2,325,000 shares at a subscription price of $0.20 per share, to raise gross proceeds of $465,000. Total proceeds raised in the financing was $850,000. The gross proceeds of the flow through share financ...

The trial of an alleged former loyalist paramilitary leader has heard that a forensic handwriting expert concluded his signature may link him to interviews given to an American college. Boston College's 'Belfast Project' tapes recorded a series of interviews from both former loyalist and republican paramilitaries which were not supposed to be disclosed until after their deaths. The prosecution in the Diplock-style trial of 69-year-old Winston 'Winkie' Rea claim he was one of those interviewed and is the voice behind confessions to a number of loyalist terror-related crimes. The alleged former...