Irish link sites. Some not-so-common web sites for Irish news--
Famine sites:
The Kingston Irish Famine
Commemoration Association: An Gorta Mor.
Another Irish famine site: An Gorta Mor/ The Chicago Irish Memorial.
Our field-tested and New Jersey state-approved Irish famine curriculum posted on the Nebraska Department of Education web site:
Irish Famine Intro.
O'Connell Street of both Philadelphia and Cleveland.
James Mullen's article on O'Connell Street
One of the most contriversal Organizations in Northern Ireland is the Orange Order. Below are several links,
both favorable and unfavorable to them.
Although the Orange Order started in Northern Ireland, the organization has now spread to other countries, including here in
the United States. To help understand them, here is the Orange Order Watch.
O'Connell Street of Philadelphia.
And more interesting stuff:
The CAIN Web Service Abstracts on Organisations That Were Prominent During 'the Troubles'.
or for that matter....
The Northern Ireland Conflict (1968 to the Present) page.
The Battle of the Somme history web page.
Irish American Unity Conference, National Office.
Political Wall Murals from Northern Ireland.
Very colorful.
What is the Orange Order?
Northern Ireland Links.
H-Block Four Updates on Irish Political prisoners,
and e-mail links where to write to them.
Keep up on the news of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey's daughter, Roisin McAliskey, who had a baby in prison while wrongly accused of a bombing in Germany.
The Human Rights Watch. Monitoring the 1998 marching season.http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9807/12/nireland.04/
The 3 brothers killed. Old CNN artical during the 1998 marching season.