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Barney Cassidy

6 articles attributed to this name

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  1. 28 October 2019  ·  Barney Cassidy  ·  Ireland, Reviews

    The DUP’s chickenshit scandal

    Barney Cassidy reviews Burned by Sam McBride (380pp £16.99) If you eat chicken that’s been bought in Tesco, the Co-Operative, Waitrose, Aldi, Iceland or your local takeaway there’s a good ch…

  2. 8 August 2019  ·  Barney Cassidy  ·  Ireland, Trade Unions

    Harland and Wolff: bitter present, ugly past

    Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff once employed 35,000 people writes Barney Cassidy . Its workforce was the aristocracy of the city's working class. They were heavily unionised and well pai…

  3. 21 April 2019  ·  Barney Cassidy  ·  Uncategorized  ·  1 comment

    The killing of Lyra McKee

    When Gerry Adams was an IRA commander in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast he used the riots that local young people conducted in defence of their area against the British army as an opportuni…

  4. 7 March 2019  ·  Barney Cassidy  ·  Britain, Ireland, Reviews

    I, Dolours: a woman’s political biography

    Barney Cassidy reviews I, Dolours , now available on Netflix. As a child growing up in a Belfast Republican family, Dolours Price was given a particular responsibility when she reached the a…

  5. 21 January 2019  ·  Barney Cassidy  ·  Britain, EU, Ireland  ·  3 comments

    Ireland’s British border

    The opening shots of the Irish War of Independence were fired one hundred years ago this week on January 21 st 1919 writes Barney Cassidy . T he 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the Irish Volunteers…

  6. 30 May 2018  ·  Barney Cassidy  ·  Ireland, Women

    Repeal the north

    The result of the referendum to repeal the constitutional ban on abortion was a huge step forward for the majority of Irish women writes Barney Cassidy . They will shortly be able, for the f…