Irish border residents watch for Brexit fallout

By David Goldman, Associated Press
January 30, 2020
David Goldman, Associated Press

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
The border was drawn in 1921, splitting communities and sometimes property, as the British government sought to create a home for the majority Protestant population of Northern Ireland at a time when the largely Catholic Republic of Ireland won its independence.

From the Boston Irish archives: At Last, After 38 Long Years, People of Derry Absolved

By Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter
January 30, 2020
Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter

The tragedy of British arrogance towards Catholic Ireland over the past many centuries has never been more thoroughly revealed than in the official government report issued on the “Bloody Sunday” shootings and killings in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 30, 1972. Twenty seven unarmed Catholic protesters were shot by British soldiers just after four o’clock that afternoon – and 14 of them died.

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