An Phoblacht

Easter 1976 marked the 60th anniversary of the 1916 Rising with the armed conflict ongoing in the Six Counties while in Dublin the Fine Gael/Labour Coalition government turned its back on both the North and on the heritage of Easter 1916 which it once claimed. Gerry Adams remembers Terry Cruncher O’Neill. He was ‘an incomparable singer of Irish songs of resistance’, and ‘a hard-working activist’ who was ‘a huge part of the growth of Sinn Féin in North Belfast following the Good Friday Agreement’

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Easter 1976 marked the 60th anniversary of the 1916 Rising with the armed conflict ongoing in the Six Counties while in Dublin the Fine Gael/Labour Coalition government turned its back on both the North and on the heritage of Easter 1916 which it once claimed. Gerry Adams remembers Terry Cruncher O’Neill. He was ‘an incomparable singer of Irish songs of resistance’, and ‘a hard-working activist’ who was ‘a huge part of the growth of Sinn Féin in North Belfast following the Good Friday Agreement’

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