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Michael Farrell
Together with Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey , Michael Farrell was òne of the founders of the student-based civil rights movement in Northern Ireland called Peoples Democracy- He was the leader of the now famous Belfast to civil rights march in 1969 which was ambushed at Burntollet Bridge by Loyalists and the RUC. (The march.was modelled on Dr; Martin Luther King's march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama). He also later stood for election as a civil rights candidate against the Northern Prime Minister Captain Terrence O'Neil and an Paisley in 1969. Derry leading figure in the civil rights movement between 1968-71, he was one of the first people interned when internment without trial was reintroduced in 1971.On his release he became one of the leaders of the anti-internment campaign. Jailed in 1973 for leading a protest against loyalist murders, he went on a 35 hunger strike which ended with his release. day
31 He has continued to be active since then as a left-wing republican and civil rights campaigner .
Mr. Farrell is currently well-known as the author of Northern Ireland: The Orange State, which has become the classic political history of the conflict in Northern Ireland. He has also written Arming the Protestants, in which he tells how the British government legalized and armed loyalist paramilitary groups in the North in the 1920's, He has just completed a book on the extradition of Irish political prisoners from the south of Ireland into the British-controlled north, and also includes chapters on Irish political prisoners being extradited from the U.S. to Britain as well. The recent cases of Dominic McGlinchey in the south of Ireland, and Joseph Dohery in the U.S. are covered. The book is to scheduled for release in September , 1985.
Born in 1944 in Co. Derry of parents from County Mayo. Mr. Farrell was educated at Queens University, Belfast, and Strathclyde University, Scotland, where he studied Literature and Political Science. He has formerly been a lecturer in history and current affairs at Belfast College of Technology.
Currently, Mr . Farrell is a freelance journalist based in Dublin. He has written and broadcast extensively on subjects like the Long Kesh hunger strikes, supergrass trials, the British Army /RUC shoot to kill policy , discrimination in Northern Ireland, as well as recent political history and cur rent affairs in the south of Ireland.
Together with Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey , Michael Farrell was òne of the founders of the student-based civil rights movement in Northern Ireland called Peoples Democracy- He was the leader of the now famous Belfast to civil rights march in 1969 which was ambushed at Burntollet Bridge by Loyalists and the RUC. (The march.was modelled on Dr; Martin Luther King's march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama). He also later stood for election as a civil rights candidate against the Northern Prime Minister Captain Terrence O'Neil and an Paisley in 1969. Derry leading figure in the civil rights movement between 1968-71, he was one of the first people interned when internment without trial was reintroduced in 1971.On his release he became one of the leaders of the anti-internment campaign. Jailed in 1973 for leading a protest against loyalist murders, he went on a 35 hunger strike which ended with his release. day
31 He has continued to be active since then as a left-wing republican and civil rights campaigner .
Mr. Farrell is currently well-known as the author of Northern Ireland: The Orange State, which has become the classic political history of the conflict in Northern Ireland. He has also written Arming the Protestants, in which he tells how the British government legalized and armed loyalist paramilitary groups in the North in the 1920's, He has just completed a book on the extradition of Irish political prisoners from the south of Ireland into the British-controlled north, and also includes chapters on Irish political prisoners being extradited from the U.S. to Britain as well. The recent cases of Dominic McGlinchey in the south of Ireland, and Joseph Dohery in the U.S. are covered. The book is to scheduled for release in September , 1985.
Born in 1944 in Co. Derry of parents from County Mayo. Mr. Farrell was educated at Queens University, Belfast, and Strathclyde University, Scotland, where he studied Literature and Political Science. He has formerly been a lecturer in history and current affairs at Belfast College of Technology.
Currently, Mr . Farrell is a freelance journalist based in Dublin. He has written and broadcast extensively on subjects like the Long Kesh hunger strikes, supergrass trials, the British Army /RUC shoot to kill policy , discrimination in Northern Ireland, as well as recent political history and cur rent affairs in the south of Ireland.