GENERAL JOHN O'NEILL
IRISH PATRIOT
FOUNDER OF O'NEILL, NEBRASKA
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Midwest Irish Concerns (MIC) is an internet based information source on efforts to unite the island of Ireland. One major player in Nebraska was UNION, a coalition of the Nebraska state chapters of several national Irish-American political action organizations which had included: the Irish American Unity Conference, the Irish National Caucus, the Lawyers Alliance for Justice in Ireland, the Brehon Law Society, theIrish-American Labor Coalition, the American Committee for Ulster Justice, Irish Republican Web Action Committee and the American Irish Human Rights Commission.
Other organizations included the Omaha Area Emerald Society, Omaha Irish Northern Aid, and the Omaha Area Ladies Order of Hibernians.
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Irish Omaha Irish Omaha is the latest effort to keep current on local Irish related events.
Between the Alternative Minimum take, making the Bush tax cuts permanent, and cutting some of the highest corporate taxes in the world, taxes are the issue. Not Iraq or health care. Here is one person's slate of people to support!
ANOTHER JOHN O'NEILL: Another hero for us to recognize.
OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE BRITISH: Islamic terrorists have slammed London with not visible or worthy political goal. Terrorists have targeted the most innocent of civilians. All that talk about the IRA being terrorists has gone up in smoke as the people of London bury their dead. The British did nothing to deserve these attacks.
Talk of an Irish holocaust can lead to some heated arguments. The starving of the Irish, was mostly caused by the Penal Laws, but there is evidence to show the British had interest in removing food from Ireland to help feed the British people. The Irish Holocaust site says a lot about what was taking place in Ireland during the starving of the Irish.
The webmaster was stunned to discover that this website has had a dramatic increase in visits due to http://www.irelandclick.com/. We don't know how they found out about us but we are grateful. Irelandclick.com has many interesting news features. Please visit them.
Irish Martyrs website is seeking sainthood for Irish who refused to convert during the famine. Many Catholics were offered food if they converted to Protestantism. Take a look.
UNION has suffered over the months due to internal disagreements and its post office box was closed months ago. This website, Ireland United, has become part of Midwest Irish Concerns (MIC) for those concerned about the events in the North of Ireland.
SEAMUS LUDLOW'S DEATH: a new site covering his death, will light ever shine here?
IRISH REPUBLICAN FELONS ASSOCIATION: Where former prisoners go to meet, that is the Felons Club. Unfortunately, the RUC still finds reason to harass these Irish Nationalists.
AYN RAND IN IRELAND??: Knowing that Irish folks are scarred by the famine and fall easily for socialist politics, like the movie Angela's Ashes, this seminar ought to be interesting. Click here.
OLD WAYS HAVE A HARD TIME ENDING: News from the six counties is that members of the RUC continue to threaten defense lawyers. Also South Armagh Farmers & Residents Committee release another press announcement stating they want a complete removal of British military installations in South Armagh. UNION members are in the process of taking action on these matters. Furthermore, Andersonstown News editorial page contemplated what Trimble will do come February if the IRA does not decommission. See here.
IRISH FAMINE.COM: This new famine site has information of interest to our members.
MORE REPORTS!: The John Weir Report is finally on the net. This former RUC agents shows are RUC collusion with Loyalist paramilitaries. Another interesting site is the The 1974 Dublin & Monaghan Bombings which so many people have completely forgotten about.
OUR FRIENDS! The Irish Famine/Genocide Committee is now on the web! This important committee helped make the Irish genocide materials possible. Nebraska became the first state to offer the famine/genocide information program to the teachers of the states by putting it on the internet.
A GRAVE MARKER FOR THOMAS BRENNAN: UNION is trying to help fund a grave marker for Irish Nationalist Thomas Brennan who served time in British prisons, set a Morroco slave woman free leaving him penniless, and who lectured throughout the United States on behalf of Ireland and whom died childless and was buried in an unmarked grave in Omaha.
The effort has just begun but of great importance to UNION. Brennan fled British authorities who wanted him for murder of Lord Cavendish the British Secretary over Ireland.
MORE ON INTERNET!: The South Armagh Farmers and Residents Committee has finally come on to the internet. These farmers and residents have been trying to let the world see that Britain has shown no intention of decommissioning the British Army.
TRIMBLE GOES AFTER AMAZON.COM!: Unable to stop the publishers of the book, "The Committee", Trimble has taken to suing Amazon.com which will start selling the new release of the book tomorrow.
NEW ALLIANCE PARTY TO SUPPORT SINN FEIN: Nothing, absolutely nothing, could suprise Irish-Americans more than the following news:The Alliance Party last night declared its support for the Sinn Fein
nominee as this yearıs deputy lord mayor and, if the IRA cessation
remains, is likely to vote for a Sinn Fein lord mayor in the year
2000. Sinn Fein is the largest party in Belfast, but has long
struggled against sectarian discrimination in winning positions in
City Hall.
But with the support of the nationalist SDLP, the Alliance move could
lead to the first Sinn Fein mayor.
The SDLP voted Sinn Feinıs Alex Maskey for deputy mayor last year,
but the nomination was defeated because the Alliance Party failed to
support them.
³Assuming the continuance of the IRA ceasefire, and although no
definite decision on next yearıs posts has yet been taken by the
Alliance group, it is likely that we will support a Sinn Fein nominee
for the position of lord mayor next year," a spokesman for the small
moderate unionist party said. The party said it would support the
Ulster Unionist nominee for lord mayor this year.
As Sinn Feinıs longest-serving councillor Mr Maskey is expected to be
one of the favourites for the position of lord mayor next year.
On Friday he said: ³Our primary concern is that our party has to be
given the top posts. We have the mandate. We are the largest party in
Belfast.
³I defy any party who wants to renege on the electoral commitments of
two years ago on the proportionality principle. We are entitled to a
share of the top posts.²
Councillor Tom Hartley, Sinn Fein group leader, welcomed the
announcement and said it was a ³challenge² for his party.
³It shows an awareness on the part of the Alliance Party that Belfast
belongs to all of its citizens,² he said. ³Belfast City Council has
been moving towards inclusiveness. Its structures increasingly
reflect the interests of all its citizens.
³We would see this as a challenge to Sinn Fein and we will meet that
challenge with maturity. Our group will now meet to decide who will
be nominated for this yearıs position of deputy lord mayor.²
ANOTHER REPORT OF COLLUSION: new information from a former RUC officer says British helped bomb Dublin.
Stop The Deportation Of Noel Cassidy!: Noel Cassidy was a political prisoner and left Ireland to the United States to find a job. He told Americans about the conditions of Irish Republican prisoners, only to be arrested and threaten with deportation. At a hearing today (April 22) Cassidy was denied an adjustment of his status. Fundraising continues. Click on the Friends Of Noel Cassidy website for more information and buy a shirt to support his case.
Snipers in Derelict Houses is a benefit album for the Pat Finucane Centre in
Derry, (north) Ireland. The Pat Finucane Centre supports families who have lost loved ones
through state violence, and documents human rights abuses. An important focus of
the group concerns the creation of democratic, accountable policing and the
encouragement of non-violent alternatives to the formal justice system