Author Archives: Ian Adamson

A Tenement City There was good reason for discontent in Dublin in 1913. Unskilled workers lived in desperate poverty. Housing conditions were deplorable. Overcrowding was a serious problem, and bred disease and infection. Malnutrition was common. The death rate in … Continue reading →

  PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins led the national commemoration of the 1913 Lockout in Dublin city centre. The President laid a wreath at the statue of labour leader Jim Larkin on O’Connell Street yesterday afternoon, followed by one minute’s silence.  … Continue reading →

NewBelfast.com Blog of Belfast’s Lord Mayor, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Follow Máirtín on Twitter and LinkedIn     I don’t claim to be a person of great religious faith though I do believe in Belfast and its people. But I do admit … Continue reading →

Michael Collins is frequently cited as the originator of modern Urban terrorism. In 1919 he hatched a scheme to take out the eyes and ears of the British administration in Dublin by undermining and terrorising the police so that the … Continue reading →

Pinkerton Government Services, Inc., founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, or “Pinks”, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Allan Pinkerton in 1850 and currently a subsidiary of the … Continue reading →

Dinnae judge an yis’ll no be judged: dinnae condemn, an yis’ll no be condemned: forgie an yis’ll be forgien: Gie an yis’ll be gien tae; guid misure, preesed doon, an shakin thegither an skailin ower, wull menfowk gie intae yer bosom. … Continue reading →

Ian –   I served in Afghanistan in 2008-2009 and then again in 2010. They were tough days in Afghanistan for all that were there. We relied on the help of local Afghan interpreters who were with us on every … Continue reading →

But A’m sayin tae youse that’s listenin, Love yer enemies, dae guid tae them that hates ye. Bliss thaim that curses ye, an pray for thaim that wushes ye ill wull. An if a bodie gies ye a slap on … Continue reading →

An he cum doon frae the moontin wi thaim an stud on the flet apen grun, an aa his follaers an a hale crood o fowks oot o Judea, an Jerusalem, an frae alang the shores o Tyre an Sidon, cum … Continue reading →

Derg Valley Victims Voice, Castlederg, County Tyrone