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UK consul
SECRET
to picketers:
I'm Irish,too
DECLASSIEICATION AUTHCRITY DERIVED FRC&I:
By BOB KEELEY "
EEI AUTOATIC CECLASSIEICATICL
Staff Writer
DATE 04-12-2018
BY:
b6
British Consul General Philip McKezrney
b7c
-yesterday told a group of IRA supporters pick-
eting outside his Beacon Hill residence that he
is *as Irish as you are."
The demonstrators had arrived outside the
Chestnut Street residence shortly before mid-
night Wednesday after learning news of the
"death of Raymond McCreesh, 24, hhe third
IRA hunger striker to die this month in Bel-
fast's Maze Prison. A fourth hunger striker
died last night.
-... When McKearney came out his front door,
.he.stopped in front of a symbolic coffin the
*protesters had erected on the sidewalk:
2
i.. ,"I saw the coffin, stood in front of it and
prayed silently. I prayed for all the men, wom-
-en and children who had died in Ireland, ex
Meined the senjor British official in Boston.
S +As he stood in front of tbe coffin, he was
Doproached by one of the protesters, Liam
Deeney of Dorchester.
20 pfeid peq q oua pro fauroyori i
Redead.
S: "Are you praying for my cousin who was'
igiuou istg sdaot Are rnos yo auu Aq pad
Deeney asked.*
"'I'm praying for all the dead,, was
cKearney's reply..
: "Wel, are you thinking about or praying
Exton
for some of my other cousins and relatives who
Dato of Revlow
re in Lonig Kesh on the blanket? Deeney shot
tack
Ciaositied
Reason for ]
:MeKearney nodded.
Deeney, a lanky Irishman with an Abe
Bincoln-type beard and heavy brogue, then be.
Bah'to tell McKearmey that Englind shouid get
Sut of Ireiand.
+I'm just as Irish as you are,
”declared the
Wigomat.
K+:"You gotta be kidding
..notwith that
Kctent, Deeney countered..
Xog," McKearney answred.
lLater the consul general said he had "as
BosTou
Huch ciaim to being Irish" zs the demonstra.
tots because his grandfather was;born,in
CvvaH
Eounty Cavan in the Irish Republic.
iMy grandfather Lived in Ireland when it
Amsei(Aw
ys.part of the United Kingdom. Wben people
started moving to the United States & Eng-
5/22/a
Sid, he moved to Scotland. He was Catholic, of
xourse," McKearney said :
:*"That's not a fair question.-That's the type
f:question that is being asked in Northern
Lreland
I. . . are you Catholic or Prod?
McKearney said it didn't make any sense
tobim thathis British accent diequalified him
clairming Irish heritage
SEERET
SECRET
to picketers:
I'm Irish,too
DECLASSIEICATION AUTHCRITY DERIVED FRC&I:
By BOB KEELEY "
EEI AUTOATIC CECLASSIEICATICL
Staff Writer
DATE 04-12-2018
BY:
b6
British Consul General Philip McKezrney
b7c
-yesterday told a group of IRA supporters pick-
eting outside his Beacon Hill residence that he
is *as Irish as you are."
The demonstrators had arrived outside the
Chestnut Street residence shortly before mid-
night Wednesday after learning news of the
"death of Raymond McCreesh, 24, hhe third
IRA hunger striker to die this month in Bel-
fast's Maze Prison. A fourth hunger striker
died last night.
-... When McKearney came out his front door,
.he.stopped in front of a symbolic coffin the
*protesters had erected on the sidewalk:
2
i.. ,"I saw the coffin, stood in front of it and
prayed silently. I prayed for all the men, wom-
-en and children who had died in Ireland, ex
Meined the senjor British official in Boston.
S +As he stood in front of tbe coffin, he was
Doproached by one of the protesters, Liam
Deeney of Dorchester.
20 pfeid peq q oua pro fauroyori i
Redead.
S: "Are you praying for my cousin who was'
igiuou istg sdaot Are rnos yo auu Aq pad
Deeney asked.*
"'I'm praying for all the dead,, was
cKearney's reply..
: "Wel, are you thinking about or praying
Exton
for some of my other cousins and relatives who
Dato of Revlow
re in Lonig Kesh on the blanket? Deeney shot
tack
Ciaositied
Reason for ]
:MeKearney nodded.
Deeney, a lanky Irishman with an Abe
Bincoln-type beard and heavy brogue, then be.
Bah'to tell McKearmey that Englind shouid get
Sut of Ireiand.
+I'm just as Irish as you are,
”declared the
Wigomat.
K+:"You gotta be kidding
..notwith that
Kctent, Deeney countered..
Xog," McKearney answred.
lLater the consul general said he had "as
BosTou
Huch ciaim to being Irish" zs the demonstra.
tots because his grandfather was;born,in
CvvaH
Eounty Cavan in the Irish Republic.
iMy grandfather Lived in Ireland when it
Amsei(Aw
ys.part of the United Kingdom. Wben people
started moving to the United States & Eng-
5/22/a
Sid, he moved to Scotland. He was Catholic, of
xourse," McKearney said :
:*"That's not a fair question.-That's the type
f:question that is being asked in Northern
Lreland
I. . . are you Catholic or Prod?
McKearney said it didn't make any sense
tobim thathis British accent diequalified him
clairming Irish heritage
SEERET