Radio Free Eireann
Posted by Jim on April 13, 2018
RADIO FREE EIREANN will broadcast this Saturday APRIL 14th on WBAI Radio 99.5FM or WBAI.ORG at 12 noon-1pm New York time or 5pm-6pm in Ireland, or anytime after the program on WBAI.ORG – Archives
Twenty years after the Good Friday agreement, architects including, George Mitchell,former President Clinton and Tony Blair gathered in Belfast for a week long series of celebratory events. ANTHONY McINTYRE,author of GOOD FRIDAY-The Death of Irish Republicanism will look back on his predictions at the time and give analysis of what the agreement and ceremonies mean today.
GEORGE McLAUGHLIN,will recount the amazing story of American organized Catalpa escape and rescue of Irish Fenian prisoners from Australia in 1876 back to safety in the United States,and the successful campaign to put headstones on the graves of two of these rescued Fenians , THOMAS DARRAGH and ROBERT CRANSTON,which will be unveiled on May 5th in Philadelphia.
We will have another update information on the April 24th event in ALBANY, which will now include formal resolutions in the New York State Senate and Assembly honoring the centennial of Ireland’s 1918 Vote for Freedom which gave a democratic mandate to the Easter Rising and Proclamation as well as announcements about other Easter Commemorations.
John McDonagh and Martin Galvin co-host.