Joe McCann 1972 and the HET January 29, 2013
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, The Left.trackback
From An Phoblacht… many thanks to the person who forwarded this.
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From An Phoblacht… many thanks to the person who forwarded this.
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Looking at that iconic photograph of McCann at Inglis’ bakery, the reality of the fact that – when shot down in his home city at just twenty-four years of age – the man was already considered an experienced veteran of the conflict. Very sad.
Just looking over his wiki page which states (unsourced) that representatives from the Workers Party, IRSP and Provisional Sinn Féin were all in attendance at a plaque unveiling to the man in 1997 which, if true, is some small good.
Is mise srl.,
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At the 40th anniversary commemoration last year there were people from the Workers Party, IRSP, Sinn Féin, éirígí, ORM, and I think the CP too in attendance.
It’s interesting that the An Phoblacht piece put Official IRA in inverted commas.
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It is interesting. What do you make of it?
The equivalent of “army”?
Re your first paragraph, good to read of all those organisations (or people who are members of those organisations) showing up to pay their respects. Cheers.
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It’s probably that they consider their (P)IRA to be the only IRA, and so the other IRAs will be in commas or have ‘so-called’ before them.
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In his autobiography, Adams always refers to the Official IRA as the ‘Officials’; you’d think it would be enough to just say the Officials without calling them the IRA, but he has to get the inverted commas in there to ram the point home.
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yes that makes sense. The tone of the article was not particularly critical of mccann or his organisation though
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So easy to be smart arse decades later. I regarded him as a hero at the time and nothing since has changed my mind.
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As Ramzi suggests, I didn’t see anything smart-arse in the article. Partisan, yes; smart-arse, no.
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HET report into Joes death
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21245123
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