If you google my name, the first thing you will see is a reference to an article written by a Shane Paul O’ Doherty, entitled “Robin Percival: The Englishman who colonized Bloody Sunday.” Like everything that Shane now writes, it is a hatchet job, an unrelenting stream of sarcasm and abuse directed at myself for the political work I have done, and have consistently done, over the past 50 or so years....
Many years ago, when I was staying in his flat in New York, the late David McReynolds told me a bit about A.J. Muste[1], arguably the most influential pacifist in the history of the USA. He said that Muste believed that once the USA......
I am currently writing a series of personal memoires. This is the first instalment: my two years at Prior’s Court Preparatory School, at Chieveley, near Newbury, 1958-1960....
If properly regulated, as now happens with parades, orange cultural manifestations such as bonfires can actually grow....
This short biography gives an overview of my life and those things which give me the most satisfaction....
This is an account of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny which took place in the Punjab, India in 1920. It highlights the role of "Jim Davis" from Derry who played a leading role in the Mutiny but who has for the most part been ignored, partly because of the mystery surrounding him. The Mutiny was a protest against the brutal Black and Tans being used by Britain in their failed attempt to suppress the IRA. It is slighted edited version from that which appeared on the Facebook pages of the Museum of Free Derry in July 2020....
The death of the Queen we knew it was always bound to happen, like our own impending death, but it never seemed likely to happen until quite recently. It does feel like something significant has happened, not least because most of us cannot remember anyone else as the Head of State of the United Kingdom....