by Robin Kirk | Jul 11, 2012 | Robin Kirk
There is a lot of bad human rights news about — torture centers in Syria, the continuing and cinematic viciousness of Mexico’s drug cartels and the country’s deeply corrupt institutions, North Carolina’s repeal of a key aspect of the Racial...
by Robin Kirk | May 26, 2011 | Robin Kirk
In 1984, Mary Travers was a 23-year-old teacher born and raised in Belfast. Her father, Tom, was a magistrate. That may not seem a dangerous profession, yet the Travers family were Catholics. To the Irish Republican Army (IRA), any Catholics working for the state,...
by Robin Kirk | May 24, 2011 | Robin Kirk
It’s heady times for the Irish Isle, which in the past seven days has welcomed Queen Elizabeth II (the first visit of an English monarch since the Republic gained independence in 1922); the American president (whose forebear, Falmouth Kearney, was the immigrant...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 26, 2010 | Robin Kirk
On Derry’s Waterside, opposite the famous walls of the old city, lies an unusual “star fort” that was for decades the home of British Army troops sent to Northern Ireland. The Ebrington Barracks lies on strategically useful land (King James the...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 15, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Thirty-eight years after the tragedy known as “Bloody Sunday” in Londonderry, a second official inquiry contains one crucial word: “innocent.” The thirteen men who died that day (another died of his wounds four months later) posed “no...
