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| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:38 AM Subject: WASHINGTON STATE IFC - FILM SCREENING IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: WASHINGTON STATE IFC - FILM SCREENING Date: March 29, 2001 A reminder to those in the Tacoma or Seattle area of Washington State-- There will be a film screening this weekend of "Invasion Lower Ormeau Road", hosted by the Washington State Chapter of the Irish Freedom Committee. Details are posted below. The Irish Freedom Committee www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ************************************************ FILM SCREENING - "INVASION LOWER ORMEAU ROAD" The Washington State Chapter of the Irish Freedom Committee will host a film screening of "Invasion Lower Ormeau Road" on SATURDAY MARCH 31, at 6:00 PM. The screening will be held at the Sprinkler Recreation Center, 14824 South Coast, Tacoma WA. A short discussion will follow. Admission is free. "Invasion Lower Ormeau Road" vividly portrays the brutality of British RUC police, unleashed in full force against the residents of the Lower Ormeau Road in August of 199, as they peacefully protested the annual incursion of an Orange Order march into their community. For more information please contact bree59@webtv.net. ************************************************ © The Irish Freedom Committee NewsList - IFC Updates Permission to re-publish any article from this post is granted provided signature is attached and the active link back to this site is included. |
| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:07 PM Subject: IFC IN PROVIDENCE, RI IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: IFC IN PROVIDENCE, RI Date: Wednesday March 21, 2001 A reminder to those in the Providence RI area-- Seoirse McLaughlin of the Providence RI Chapter of the Irish Freedom Committee will host an informal discussion on the Irish Freedom Committee tomorrow evening, Thursday March 22, at 7PM. For further details and location please email seoirse48@netzero.net. The article below was published in "Fourthwrite". D. Fennessy Irish Freedom Committee P.O. Box 11417 Chicago, IL 60611 deemail@msn.com www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ************************************************ Fourthwrite - The journal of the Irish Republican Writers Group http://rwg.phoblacht.net/fw3letter.html Issue no.3 Autumn 2000 Dear Editor "...and supported by her exiled children in America..." The above words from the the Proclamation of 1916 are often not emphasised and sometimes forgotten by republicans when discussion moves toward the reason for our movement’s existence and guidelines for principles and behaviour. Since the Good Friday Treaty, we are living in such a time, a gruelling time of ambiguity and uncertainty, a time when one’s validity as a republican is constantly called into question. While we are trying to voice our views, there is one thing worse than being an Irish republican, and that is being an Irish-American one. Irish-American republicans opposed to the treaty have become accustomed to being verbally attacked or ignored: the unionists say we’re still naive deep-pockets who want more of their blood spilled; the English warn of our continued romantic and antiquated commitment to militancy; the Free State, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the SDLP discredit us by making us invisible; and Sinn Fein, now having used us up, discard us as "dinosaurs" and part of their historical rubbish. Ironically, we have seldom been sought out for our views by those republicans in Ireland who oppose the treaty. There seems to be an underlying prejudice towards us in all these camps. When we can be of service to the current political line, we are listened to, even applauded, but when we have our own ideas, we are ignored. And why is this? Could it be that there is no understanding or appreciation of the immense historical links between republicans and the value of their discourse for two hundred years on both sides of the Atlantic? I think so. For, after all is said and done, it is the strongest revolutionary political link in the vast world of the Irish diaspora. This is not random or coincidental. It is firmly built on two centuries of camaraderie, sacrifice and struggle together. The lives of Larkin, Connolly, Boyle-O’Reilly, O’Donovan-Rossa, Mitchel, Meagher, the Emmets and Tone head the list of countless lives that attest to it. A one-dimensional pop notion of Irish-America has been carefully nurtured and fed to the masses in Ireland by the thought police of television and the Free State’s tourism godfathers, and this stereotype has generally been accepted tongue-in-cheek by most. We are not Irish-Americans after all, just Yanks. Sadly, many Irish republicans have also accepted this notion, being ignorant of or forgetting that in Irish-America there has always been a huge historical heart attached to anti-imperialism in Ireland. We are your cousins. Why else did we not forget you? Why else did so many of us work to support the civil rights movement, the political status campaign for prisoners and armed resistance? We are your long lost cousins, indeed, and we won’t go away. So, shouldn’t we be part of discussions which journals like this one are fostering? As for me, I am against the Good Friday Treaty, about which, like so many of you on the ground at home, Irish-American republicans were never consulted, just "informed." I am against it because it negates the basic principles which give the republican movement its identity and undermines any chance of an unfettered, united Ireland outside the framework which England has erected, and it brings us back to accepting a revised perception of the struggle as "ethnic," "religious" and "a conflict of traditions." I am for any republican who is against it. I am for any republican prisoner who sits in a cell because of his opposition to it. But I am worried, worried about our commitment to discourse, a discourse which will liberate us from past forms which led some of our comrades to accept the unthinkable. We must have this discourse, but it must produce action, not talking heads. We need both— talk and action— for England is still the problem, not us. So let us clear the path as we go down it, and let us move together, republican brothers and sisters. And, oh yes, cousins. Yours sincerely, Seoirse McLaughlin Irish Freedom Committee, New England, U.S.A. ************************************************ © The Irish Freedom Committee NewsList - IFC Updates Permission to re-publish any article from this post is granted provided signature is attached and the active link back to this site is included. ************************************************ |
| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List [deemail@msn.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:23 PM Subject: BOSTON IFC ST. PAT'S WEEKEND ACTIVITIES IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: BOSTON IFC ST. PAT'S WEEKEND ACTIVITIES Date: Monday March 19, 2001 The report below comes from Irish Freedom Committee National Chairman Joe Dillon of Boston MA. The Irish Freedom Committee www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ************************************************ The Irish Freedom Committee Kerins-O'Neill Cumann, Boston MA Joe Dillon, Boston MA - National Chairman Monday March 19, 2001 --------------------- BOSTON IFC ST. PAT'S WEEKEND ACTIVITIES Members of Boston's Kerins-O'Neill Cumann of the Irish Freedom Committee productively utilized the St. Patrick's Day weekend when on Saturday, March 17, a contingent stationed themselves at both sides of the only driveway leading to the Doubletree Hotel, Lowell MA; to greet the Stormont Minister of Education, Martin McGuinness, and his host U.S. Congressman Martin Meehan. The contingent held large posters carrying the messages; "TRAITOR, IS YOUR BRIT PAYCHECK WORTH IT?", "BOBBY SANDS DIDN'T DIE FOR A BRIT-RULED IRELAND", "MCGUINNESS, MINISTER OF THE CROWN", and "PROVOS BROUGHT THE STRUGGLE BACK TO 1967!". A number of individuals stopped to inquire about our presence there, including a reporter from the Boston Herald, who included our reason for being there in the Sunday edition of that newspaper (See IFC NewsList post 03/18/01). Our sunny, but chilly visit to this site was satisfactorily topped off by the fact that our presence delayed the British Minister's appearance at the hotel for one and one-half hours; thereby throwing his schedule out of kilter. The following day, on Sunday March 18th, an enthused group representing the Boston Chapter of the Irish Freedom Committee participated in the three-mile long South Boston Parade, proudly displaying a beautiful banner at the head of the contingent; as well as new magnetized signs affixed to the sides of a van. The appearance of the words "Irish Freedom Committee" evoked considerable attention and applause as we made our way along the parade route, and we believe that the very noticeable inclusion of the web-site information will be of great value. As the Kerins-O'Neill Cumann of the Irish Freedom Committee plans for our inclusion in the June "Dorchester Days" parade here in Boston, we are convinced that our public display of support for current Republican political prisoners, as well as our commitment to a truly independent Ireland, will ultimately promote ever stronger support for our organization and its mission. Tiochfaidh ár Lá ! Joe Dillon, Boston MA The Irish Freedom Committee - National Chairman P.O. Box 182 Boston, MA 02122 Email: mjoyce9999@hotmail.com -------------------------------- ENDS ************************************************ © The Irish Freedom Committee NewsList - IFC Updates Permission to re-publish any article from this post is granted provided signature is attached and the active link back to this site is included. |
| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 9:47 AM Subject: THEY SETTLED FOR CONTINUED BRITISH RULE IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: "THEY SETTLED FOR CONTINUED BRITISH RULE" Date: Sunday March 18, 2001 ************************************************
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| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO BE IRISH? IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO BE IRISH? Date: Saturday March 17, 2001 ************************************************ What does it really mean to be Irish? by John King Irish Freedom Committee, Worcester MA Henry Joy McCracken Chapter March 10, 2001 March is upon us and we are all looking forward to the spring thaw, if it should ever get here, flowers blooming and more sunlight. Of course there is St. Patrick's Day, a day in which many misinformed Irish-Americans will get out there and tout their Irishness, although most have no clue as to what it is. They think that drinking green beer, wearing green clothes and eating corned beef and cabbage, which is an American dish, is what it's all about. Ask them anything about Ireland and most have no idea. Ask them to point it out on a map and they are probably even more clueless. Ask them where exactly their family originates in Ireland and you've hit the jackpot: CLUELESS. Let's go back in time for our first phase of Irish history. The British have been oppressing the Irish for hundreds of years. One of the more well known rebellions against the Brits came about in 1798 in the form of the United Irish uprising. The United Irishmen were a group of mainly well off Irishmen, most who weren't catholic, who felt that what the Brits were doing to the Irish Catholics was wrong. Theobold Wolfe Tone sought the help of the French. Unfortunately a storm off the southern coast of Ireland caused them to turn back. Eventually another attempt was made, this time with less help, and the rebellion was squashed. All those taking part in it were tortured and executed. That has basically set the precedent for all future uprisings: the Brits torture and execute those involved. Another sad moment in Irish history would be the Irish genocide, affectionately known as the "famine." The Ancient Order of Hibernians calls it An Gorta Mor, the great hunger. Another misinformed bunch. It was a holocaust in which over four million innocent Irish people were starved to death by the British government. This was an attempt to end the Irish race once and for all. There are well documented papers in which messages were sent back to England from British government officials stating that the death rate was too slow for them to gain what they wanted, an end to the Irish race. Tons of food were being exported to England from Ireland everyday. The food could have fed millions of people. Great hunger, huh? Easter 1916, another attempt to overthrow the British government in Ireland, and another massacre of Irishmen and women at the hands of the Brit war machine. This is where most people make the mistake and believe that at about this time Ireland gained her independence from England. That happened, let's see, NEVER. 1922, Ireland is partitioned which leads to a bloody civil war in which the horror and torture are unimaginable. Ever drink a black and tan? You'd never ask for one in a real Irish pub. These men were brought from England to wipe out the Irish. They wore rag tag uniforms of black pants and tan shirts or vice versa, hence the name black and tan. They executed many innocent Irish men, women and children. Much to the amazement of these "proud" Irish, there have been over sixty fire bombings on innocent Irish families in the north of Ireland since the beginning of this year. All of these are done by British loyalist death squads, with the cooperation of the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (that would be the Crown Forces police in the north). How about assassinations? Don't quite agree with the illegal British occupation of the six counties in the north of Ireland and chances are you're a marked person. A list of over 500 names was recently found to be in the possession of a loyalist death squad. That list contained the names of Irish nationalists. I don't think the list was intended to by used as a mailing list for Christmas cards. Hunger Strikes? This year marks the 20th anniversary of a hunger strike in which ten brave Irishman gave their lives for the basic rights of Irish political prisoners. Danny McAlister, currently a political prisoner in Portlaoise Prison, Co. Laoise, Ireland went on a hunger strike at the beginning of this year in an attempt to win rights for his fellow prisoners, the rights which have been surrendered under the sellout Good Friday Agreement. Another anniversary in Irish history is January 30, 1972. Known as Bloody Sunday, this is the day when the British Army decided to execute 14 innocent Irishmen who were taking part in a peaceful demonstration against internment. This was a well planned military maneuver. To this day no one has ever been charged with these deaths. Most of the soldiers who took part in this massacre have been made into heroes for their actions and have been promoted or retired with pensions. By the way, there were two previous Bloody Sundays in Irish history, one of them happening at a Gaelic Athletic Association football game in 1922 in which the Black and Tans came onto the field in an armored car and opened fire. True heroes. Then of course there is the so called Celtic Tiger, that wonderful economy in Ireland which everyone speaks so highly of. Ever been to Ireland to see it in action? I often wonder why there is still so much poverty there if the economy is so good. The unemployment rate isn't something to be happy about either. Go to the north and you'll really witness some unemployment. Of course if you're a loyalist you have no problem working. Especially if you're young and your father is retiring, as you can automatically receive an apprenticeship in his profession, just to make sure no Irish nationalist or catholic gets the job. I could go on and on. I'll end it with the myth of the Sinn Fein party. Most Irish-Americans hear Sinn Fein or Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein's president, and they picture a group fighting on for the Irish people and their quest for a reunited 32 County Ireland. Hate to break the news to you, but they've sold the Irish people down the Liffey and have solidified English rule in Ireland. They first did this in 1986 when they broke their own constitution and accepted seats in Leinster House, the parliament in the south of Ireland. Now they have accepted seats in the Stormont Assembly, the British run parliament in the occupied six counties of the north. They receive a British paycheck for helping the Brits rule Ireland and even get to fly the union jack from their office. They have officially recognized British rule in Ireland, and are helping to keep it there. So just remember, on St.Paddy's Day, March 17th, when you're out there making a fool out of yourself and claiming to be proud to be Irish, the people in Ireland are probably at mass, as it is a holy day, or are probably fearing for their lives. In case you haven't caught on yet, being proud to be Irish in certain parts of Ireland could get you in a lot of trouble. ************************************************ For more articles by John King: http://www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=379651 ************************************************ © The Irish Freedom Committee NewsList - IFC Updates Permission to re-publish any article from this post is granted provided signature is attached and the active link back to this site is included. |
| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 10:03 AM Subject: 'SECOND POLICE FORCE' - Sinn Fein's All-Ireland vision IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: 'SECOND POLICE FORCE' - Sinn Fein's All-Ireland vision Date: Saturday March 17, 2001 Stormont Troopers in action South and North of the Border. Provo attacks in the news ************************************************ The Irish Times Saturday, March 17, 2001 SF AND ROBBERY VICTIMS Sinn Féin is going all out to win a Dáil seat in Kerry North in the next general election. It is using its own system of law and order to help. Alison O'Connor reports. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/newsfeatures/2001/0317/newsfea5.htm ************************************************ Irish Independent Wednesday January 31, 2001 Tom Brady, Security Editor ARMED MEN 'PART OF IRA SQUAD ON WAY TO BEATING' FOUR armed men stopped at a garda checkpoint are suspected of being in an IRA "punishment" squad on their way to target a victim. The four are all believed to have links to the Provisional movement and some are known Sinn Fein activists in the Cork region where they were stopped. Last night garda anti-terrorist officers were trying to establish if the group was involved in an operation that had been sanctioned by the Provisional leadership or were taking part in a personal vendetta. The intended target, detectives believe, was a local drug dealer, but this could not been confirmed last night. The four, who are all aged between 33 and 40, are from Midleton, Youghal, Ballyvolane and Passage West in Cork. One previously served a seven-year sentence for IRA activities. They were travelling in a Ford Escort car, which had been stolen in Waterford and fitted with false plates, when they were spotted on Monday night by gardai who became suspicious about the way the vehicle was being driven. A search of the car revealed three fully loaded semi-automatic pistols and two baseball bats. ************************************************ BBC 15 March 2001 FAMILY BLAME IRA FOR ATTACK The man was dragged from his Ballymurphy home The family of a west Belfast teenager whose finger was cut off in a paramilitary-style attack have blamed the IRA. The man is the cousin of Joe O'Connor, a member of the dissident republican Real IRA, who was murdered in the same area of Ballymurphy last year. The Real IRA splinter group opposes the IRA and Sinn Fein's strategy in the Northern Ireland peace process and there is bitter rivalry between the two groups. Francisco Notarantonio, 17, was with his girlfriend and their baby at home on the Ballymurphy Road when a masked gang forced their way into the house on Wednesday night. His girlfriend Michaela McGuigan said: "We heard two shots fired outside the door. "The door was booted in and three big guys ran in. "They shouted 'Provisional IRA', and kicked my child's pram out of the way, while he was in it, to get at Francie." The gang took Francisco Notarantonio to an alley off the Whiterock Road. They then beat him with claw hammers, breaking bones in his hands and one of his ankles. They also cut off one of his fingers. His mother, Rose Notarantonio blamed the IRA for the attack. She said: "The rats and vermin that did my son have done all the off-licences over Christmas and all the building sites. The evidence is at their own front doors." Reacting to the attack, Sinn Fein councillor Michael Browne said: "I wouldn't like to think that whole families were being singled out for intimidation. "If that were the case it would be totally reprehensible." Mr O'Connor's grandfather, Francisco Notarantonio, was shot dead by loyalists in a house on the same street almost 13 years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1222000/1222547.stm ************************************************ London Sunday Times Sunday January 21, 2001 IRA SHOOT BOY FOR BREAKING WINDOW Liam Clarke IRA target: Eamon McAuley recovers from a second operation on his feet at Belfast's Royal Victoria hospital Photograph: Cathal McNaughton THE Provisional IRA is suspected of shooting a 17-year-old boy in both feet last week, as a punishment for breaking windows in west Belfast. Eamon McAuley, who this weekend underwent a second operation on his feet, is the latest victim of gun law in Northern Ireland which punishes anyone who opposes west Belfast's Sinn Fein and IRA elite. Last October, McAuley's cousin, Joe O'Connor, a local hard man who was briefly associated with the dissident Real IRA, was shot dead by Provisionals. O'Connor, who was not suspected of involvement in terrorism, sealed his fate when he told a leading IRA figure that his son was a drugs dealer. His killers walked up to O'Connor as he sat in his car and shot him 10 times. Up to eight IRA "volunteers" took part in the terrorist attack. RUC sources believe that a relative of Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, was part of the gang that murdered O'Connor. McAuley threw stones at the windows of a number of houses in protest at his cousin's murder. In an interview with The Sunday Times yesterday, he said: "They saw me but couldn't catch me. I ran." Soon afterwards the IRA came looking for McAuley, who lives with his aunt, Anne McManus. In late October three masked terrorists burst into McManus's bedroom demanding to see McAuley. A few days later a well-known IRA man from the Turf Lodge estate called to McManus's house and said he was from the Community Restorative Justice programme. She said: "He told me he knew Eamon was angry but he said that these people whose windows were broken wanted justice. So he asked Eamon to meet him the next night at seven o'clock to get his hands broken. Eamon said 'Okay' but he never went." Instead McAuley fled the area and stayed with friends. This month he felt it was safe to return but last Monday, three masked men came to McManus's house. One pinned the 43-year-old woman to the wall, while another ran upstairs in search of McAuley who eventually. At first he jammed his door but hearing his aunt being manhandled as they were trying to lock her in the kitchen, he gave himself up. He was first taken to a house where he was made to lie on the floor. "They asked me if I wanted a job as a glazier because I was so fond of breaking windows," McAuley said. "They asked if I wanted to be known as the hard man who took on the IRA single-handed. 'This will teach you not to f**k with the IRA', one of them said." One terrorist sang I Did it My Way while another threatened to kill McAuley. After an hour of taunting he had a towel tied over his face and was taken to waste ground, where he was shot in both feet. He had no socks on and his wounds were complicated by powder burns as the hot gun was forced into them. McManus said: "Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson don't seem to care. They tell us there is a peace process, but where is it, when these people are being allowed to have guns and to go out and treat kids like that." Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA commander in the Lower Ormeau area of Belfast, agrees that west Belfast is turning into a one-party police state. "If the RUC was coming round and doing this to people, Sinn Fein would be up squealing about it," he said. Police and local people expect the tempo of attacks to increase in the coming months as Sinn Fein and its IRA backers gear up for the local council elections. An RUC officer in west Belfast said: "On one side it's a grip of fear - they are telling people here what happens when you stand up to them. On the other hand it's a populist thing, rallying mobs to drive people out of their homes." ************************************************ © The Irish Freedom Committee NewsList - IFC Updates Permission to re-publish any article from this post is granted provided signature is attached and the active link back to this site is included. ************************************************ |
| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List [deemail@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:05 PM To: List Member Subject: ROSEMARY NELSON ASSASSINATED 2 YEARS AGO TODAY IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ----------------------------- Subject: ROSEMARY NELSON ASSASSINATED 2 YEARS AGO TODAY Date: March 15, 2001 Two years ago today, following several years of death threats against her by members of the British security forces, well-loved Human Rights attorney Rosemary Nelson was assassinated with a highly sophisticated car bomb which was placed inside her car following an "unprecedented" level of security forces activity in her community. Rosemary Nelson spent her professional life defending the rights of members of the Nationalist community living in the cross-hairs of an oppressive British State. She represented the families of those murdered with the complicity of security forces; like Robert Hammill, kicked to death by a mob of Loyalists in full view of an armed RUC Land Rover only 200 yards from a fully manned RUC station. She advised BBC producer Sean McPhilemy as he exposed high-level British Government involvement in the assassinations of Irish Nationalists in his documentary and follow-up book, "The Committee". She represented the community of the Garvaghy Road, forced to endure RUC-escorted Orange Order marches through their quiet communities year after year. Rosemary Nelson, a wife to Paul Nelson and mother to 3 children, had testified six months previously before the United States Senate describing years of death threats, verbal abuse, and physical assault at the hands of the British RUC police force. Rosemary Nelson never flinched in her determination to secure rights for a rightless people. Despite the daily hostility she faced in making her way through a British system on behalf of others, she never wavered and never placed her own security before the safety of her clients. The Irish Freedom Committee joins in the world-wide call for a fully independent, International inquiry into the assassination of Rosemary Nelson. The Irish Freedom Committee www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ************************************************ BREAKDOWN OF BRITISH SECURITY FORCES ACTIVITY (British Army and British RUC police force) beginning with "marked increase in security presence in area" two to three months prior to Rosemary Nelson's assassination: http://www.serve.com/pfc/rosemary/security.html (Link from The Pat Finucane Center, "Rosemary Nelson - the life and death of a human rights defender") ************************************************ MAP OF LURGAN: http://www.serve.com/pfc/rosemary/map.html (Link from The Pat Finucane Center, "Rosemary Nelson - the life and death of a human rights defender") ************************************************ THE ROSEMARY NELSON CAMPAIGN: http://www.rosemarynelsoncampaign.com/ DOWNLOAD FLIER for St. Patrick's Day distribution here. ************************************************ © The Irish Freedom Committee NewsList - IFC Updates Permission to re-publish any article from this post is granted provided signature is attached and the active link back to this site is included. |
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| From: Irish Freedom Committee News List Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:44 AM Subject: National St. Patrick's Day Events - IFC Irish Freedom Committee National St. Patrick's Day Events ----------------------------------------- Saturday March 10, 2001 - Providence, Rhode Island The Providence RI Chapter of the Irish Freedom Committee will march with the city parade, and meet with the community at a reception at the State House to discuss upcoming events on the East Coast. For more information contact George McLaughlin.
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