Palestine and the Ulster Plantation

My friend and fellow writer Danny Morrison has been kind enough to alert me to the fact that the Bobby Sands Trust website has posted an important article by the renowned journalist Robert Fisk on the parallels between land seizures in Palestine and in Ireland. The article, entitled “ History - A Great Punisher - Walls never work: in the Middle East or in Ireland" was recently published in the London Independent and can be read at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-walls-never-work-in-the-middle-east-or-in-ireland-1855417.html

However, I would encourage readers to go to the Bobby Sand’s Trust website, details of which I provide after the short backgrounder below.

Historical Parallels

Regular readers of Cic Saor may remember that I won a film director’s award in New York (see –Cic Saor – “Flight of the Earls film feted abroad and ignored by Ireland's “Litterati” - 10th of May 2008).

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