Roy Garland Irish News 30 August 2010
The McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School addressed serious issues at Carlingford on Saturday.
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Irish Times Obituary 11 April 2009
By Michael Farrell
Paper to Desmond Greaves Summer School
30th August 2008
What I have to say will be only partly historical. The Civil Rights Commemoration Committee, with which I am involved, has from the beginning stressed that while it wished to mark the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement in a dignified way, it also wanted to look forward and try to apply the lessons and ideals of the Civil Rights movement to contemporary problems and challenges. So I will be trying to do that today.
By Susan McKay Irish News Columnist
26/08/08
There’s something about Mary Robinson. As one of the world’s leading human rights activists, she is a formidable woman and an outstandingly brave one. She moves among world leaders and is a personal friend of Nelson Mandela’s. But she has not lost her belief in the importance of the local and the power of the individual to change the world. She has, above all, a rare ability to inspire.
Robinson criticises plan to merge human rights bodies
Mary Robinson: human rights bodies “need to be invigorated”
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- (L-R) Mrs. Nellie Gorman, Mrs. Bridget Bond and Mr. Ivan Cooper taken at one of the ‘lulls’ before the storm at Derry Corporation’s monthly meetings.
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- G.F. O’Doherty, Editor of Reality
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- J.J. O’ Hara pictured being ‘lifted’ during blockage of other vehicles, the first occupied by the Mayor of Derry, at the official opening ceremony of the lower deck of Craigavon Bridge.
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- The ‘two Eamonns’, (L-R ) Melaugh and McCann addressing a D.H.A.C. street protest
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- (L-R) Neil O’Donnell and Roddy O’Carlin are welcomed home at the L.M.S. railway station after their release from H.M. Prison, Belfast where they were incarcerated for one month due to D.H.A.C. activities.
Originally published: Reality, No. 7, Centre Pages
Buoyed up by the fact that the Coalisland to Dungannon march on August 24th had been, in the main, peaceful, and deemed to be highly successful, the Derry Housing Action Committee formally requested the Civil Rights Association executive to consider holding its next demonstration in the city to highlight the need for democratic reforms, and specifically the plight of hundreds of local homeless families. The NICRA executive responded, a few weeks later, indicating their approval with the proviso that any organising committee should be as broadly based as possible. The date for the next march was scheduled for Saturday, October 5th, at 3 PM, with the agreed assembly point being the Waterside railway station.
Originally Published Derry Journal, Friday, 6th June 2008.
Local author and historian Fionnbarra Ó’Dochartaigh, a co-founder of NICRA in 1967, in this third exclusive article for the “Journal” traces the roots of early public agitations which led to the dramatic events on Derry’s Duke Street on October 5th 1968. Almost overnight the civil rights lobby-group was transformed into a mass movement. This writer currently sits on the executive of the 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee.
Originally Published Derry Journal, Friday, 6th June 2008.
Local author and historian Fionnbarra Ó’Dochartaigh, a co-founder of NICRA in 1967, in this third exclusive article for the “Journal” traces the roots of early public agitations which led to the dramatic events on Derry’s Duke Street on October 5th 1968. Almost overnight the civil rights lobby-group was transformed into a mass movement. This writer currently sits on the executive of the 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee.
