Irish American Business Chamber and Network
-
InBy Denise Foley
A Belated Focus on Women As Peacemakers in The Troubles: Peace Activist Monica McWilliams
Photos by Tom Keenan At a youth conference in Northern Ireland recently, a young woman taking her O levels in history approached Monica McWilliams, co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party and a signatory of the Good Friday Peace Agreement in 1998. The student had a complaint. The only reference to women during “The Troubles” in the history curriculum, she told McWilliams, “was that women handed out tea and buns when the British […] Read More
What's Up
Latest Posts
- Annual Philadelphia All Star Labor Classic has the Luck of the Irish
- A Tale of Two Women: Irish Heritage Theatre Presents the Tragicomic “Beauty Queen of Leenane”
- The Long-Hidden Story Behind the IRA’s Only Officially Authorized Attack on U.S. Soil
- The Fabulous Murphys … America’s Forgotten Expatriates
- Crazy for Cranberries!