Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Origin of the MacBride Principles
- Chapter Two MacBride and the Campaign after the Publication of the Principles
- Chapter Three MacBride and the British Government
- Chapter Four MacBride and the Irish Government
- Chapter Five MacBride and the British Labour Party
- Chapter Six MacBride, the SDLP and Sinn Féin
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter One - The Origin of the MacBride Principles
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Origin of the MacBride Principles
- Chapter Two MacBride and the Campaign after the Publication of the Principles
- Chapter Three MacBride and the British Government
- Chapter Four MacBride and the Irish Government
- Chapter Five MacBride and the British Labour Party
- Chapter Six MacBride, the SDLP and Sinn Féin
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I just said to myself: ‘if it's good enough for South Africa, its good enough for Northern Ireland’.
(State Senator Joseph B. Walsh, Boston Globe, 23 March 1983)It's clear, however, that there is prima facie evidence for a case to be made that American firms are part of the systematic, geographical and personal pattern of discrimination in Northern Ireland.
(Report on INC visit to Northern Ireland)Fr Sean McManus, the President of the Irish National Caucus (INC), stated that the MacBride Principles ‘were “conceived” in August 1979; “born” in June 1983; and “christened” in November 1984’. It was not quite so simple. These were three significant dates, but there was a long history of endeavour by many others. Holland wrote that the origins of the INC are much disputed, but that it seems to have become active in 1974 with the ‘aim of lobbying on behalf of Irish unity’.
Among those involved in its formation were Flannery, the founding father of the Irish Northern Aid Committee; Jack Keane, the President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH); and Teddy Gleason, the powerful trade union leader.
Holland states that they were dominated by ‘a Northern Ireland-born priest, the Reverend Sean McManus’. Wilson gave a detailed account of the INC's formation.
The most concerted effort of militant Irish-American organisations to revive their effectiveness was the formation of a new congressional lobbying group … […]
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- The Macbride PrinciplesIrish America Strikes Back, pp. 13 - 31Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2009