Irish Political Review / Northern Star

INDEX 1999


January 1999

Trimble's Reflections At Oslo (Or, The Burkeing Of Burke), Brendan Clifford

Iraq And Democracy

Kofi Annan Speaks Out!

Israeli Spies In UNSCOM

Iraq Weapons Inspectors

Fifth Column: "Tidings Of comfort And Joy (Mandelson); England's Favourite Minister; Belfast--A Small Town One Maine?; Konfrontasi; Indy And The Bean

Trimble Negotiates For Assembly Dominance, Report

"Hungary Crippled By Foreign Debt" Report

Northern News Digest: SF Plans for RUC; QUB; Irish Times on Patten Rebutted; UKUP Hiccup; Knighthoods; SDLP Rejects Honours; Continuity Attacks May Resume; Trimble v. Parades Commission

A Reforming Budget, John Martin

The Reconquest Of Ireland?, Angela Clifford

An Ever-Expanding Market? (Reader's Letter, Robert Burrage)

A New Year's Joke

LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: Immigration: Jesuit Globalism


February 1999

Will The Real Dr. Goebbels Stand Up!, Editorial

Bertie Ahern's Turns, Report

Changing The EU Constitution, Angela Clifford

Fifth Column: Riefenstahl Revisited; Letter From Manhattan; Radio Propaganda

Trimble, O'Brien And Jacques Rousseau, Brendan Clifford

Northern News Digest: UKUP Croak; Germany And Ulster; Trimble Recoils;

Trimble Creeps Forward; Loyalist Provocation; UUP Defection; Barnes vs.

Mo; Bipartisanship Breaks; Tories Defeated; Hutchinson

Cathal Goulding And Redundant Republicanism, Jack Lane

"Cathal Goulding's Pacifism", Report

Status Of Northern Ireland, Letter from David A. Sager

Anthony Coughlan And Irish Neutrality, E. Courtney

Merger Between Labour And Democratic Left: What About Northern Socialists?, Pat Muldowney

LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: On Another Man's Wounds (Irish Manoeuvres On Military Matters)


March 1999

The Ides Of March, Editorial

Irish Sea-Change?

The d'Hondt System

Fifth Column: 'Flegs', Again; A Wee Green Tiger Cub? The Politics Of Quotation Marks, II

Labour: Tribalism Or Third Strand?, Foyle Labour Group

The Depreciating Euro

Northern News Digest: Drumcree Vigilantism; IRA Deny Beatings; McKenna Names Omagh Bombers; Antrim Orangemen Split From UUP; IRA Halt Beatings; 51% For Executive; Executive Structures Passed; Loyalist Beatings Dwindle; Housing Trust Evaporates From History; Cross-Border Fixtures\

Of Asia, Imperialism, And Running Dogs, E. Courtney

"Back To The Beginning", Dr. Matathir Mohammad

AIB: Garret's Halo Drops, Angela Clifford

LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: Irish Army: 1913 To 1999


April 1999

Agreement Riddled By Declaration, Editorial

Kosovo: The Bigger Picture, E. Courtney

"We Should Not Break The Law In Order To Impose The Law" Report of article by Andreas Whittam Smith 7

"US Foreign Policy To Benefit From Clinton's Second Term" Report of 1996 article by Garret FitzGerald

Fifth Column: St. Paddy's Day, 1999--Belfast; A Rumble Among The Coffee Cups; (Ulster) Scots Wha Hae?

Liquidating The Enemy, Pat Walsh

Northern News Digest: Irish Knighthoods?; Trimble Resignation; IRA Prisoners; Housing Again; John Hume Disposes; Conservative & Unionist; Massie Attack; The Trimbletrap; Sinn Fein Squeezed; No Obligation; IRA Stands Firm

Shenanigans Over The Report On The European Commission, A. Clifford

LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: U.S.—Going Bananas!; A Gander At Our Betters; Goethe Aphorism; Hidden Tiger?


May 1999

Agreement! What Agreement? Editorial

Irish Labour And The North Editorial:

Fifth Column: Andy Goram; Gabon, Again; Ballymacarrat; Composite Peeler

An Atonement For Bandon? Jack Lane

Northern News Digest: Oh Mo; Snooper; Vincent Browne; M. Holland Blames Ahern; Und'Hondt'd; Peace Proceeds; Statesman; Mallon Blames PMs

Who Shall Overcome Whom? Sean McGouran

EU Reduces Yugoslavia To Rubble Brendan Clifford

LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: Problems 2000: Market V. Partnership; European Vistas


June 1999

Assassination vs. Equal Citizenship! Brendan Clifford

Kosovo Endgame. Editorial

Fifth Column: Cliftonville Misses Irish Cup; župon which the sun never sets?

Kosovo Ends The Myths! Frank Kearney

The Committee (Book Review). E. Courtney

Northern News Digest: An American In Portadown; Drumcrime; Nine Years' Blunder; S.D.L.Pique; Victims' Commission; Trilingual Twilight; Orange Segments; Euro Election; Shoring Up Trimble

World Reports On Grenada (Review). S. McGouran

Who Shall Overcome Whom?. Report

Why Sweden Rejected Drug Liberalisation. News Weekly

Irish Labour. Joe Keenan, S. Belfast Labour

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney:

Davitt And The Boers - A Forgotten Centenary?

Shea Not O'Shea!


July 1999

Blair Supports The Agreement!? Editorial

State Within A State: Justice And The Sheedy Case. Angela Clifford

Fifth Column (All Passion Spent?; The Meaning Of Anarchism by Capt. White; A State Of Emergency?)

Piaras Feiritéir: A Plea For Decommissioning. Poem; and translation by Niall Cusack

Northern News Digest (Seismic Shifts; Vincent's Victims; Naughty Jim; Spirit Of Lord Sutch; 60-40; Garvaghy Grievances PLC; Dead Dope Pedlar; Some Surrender; Sinn Fein In OK?)

KOSSOVO

The Casuistry Of Intention. Report

Genies And Bottles. Sean McGouran

Irish Referendum Result (Local Government)

One Election In Europe—Two And A Half In Northern Ireland Sean McGouran

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Attack On Partnership


August 1999

Scraps Of Paper. Editorial

Serbia: How Ireland Helped The Bombers. E. Courtney

Government By Propaganda. Report

Fifth Column: It's An Ill Wind; Gliberal Bloodlust

Crisis In The Northern Ireland Peace Process. Mark Langhammer (Letter, Irish Times 22.7.1999)

Northern News Digest: New News Letter; Peace & The Wicked; Arsenals; Bain of Queen's; Employment; Life After Bob; Won't Go Away; Funding Exemption

Elizabeth Bowen Remembered

Bowing To Bowen. Jack Lane

Elizabeth Bowen—A Question. Leaflet

Report Of British Council/Cork University "Conference"

Mulling It Over. Brendan Clifford

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Verdict Of 11th June!; Telecom Sell-Off!


September 1999

What Is A Ceasefire? Editorial

Democratising Capitalism, Sean McGouran

Fifth Column: War Of The Worlds; The (British) Empire Strikes Back--Sort Of; The BBC Broadcasts The Truth—Nearly; Music: Envoi

Shareholding Democracy? Angela Clifford

New Labour And Privatisation, Report

Paddy Devlin Remembered, Sean McGouran

Human Rights Commissioner Breaks Strike! Report

Martin Smyth On R.I.C., Report

Punishment Beatings, Letter to Derry Journal, Pat Muldowney

Northern News Digest: FritBrits; Foxy Lady; Threats To Ervine; The Necessary Murder; Tiananmen & Boys; Omagh Anniversary; Mo Bounced; Protecting Catholics

Political Science Revisited! Brendan Clifford

Northern Ireland: European Election Results, Report

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Little America!; Rodney's Tale; Labour Fails To Disclose; Verdict Of 11th June; Continuity Labour


October 1999

Force And Democracy. Editorial

Roy Foster Denounces Aubane In Defence Of Bowen's Honour. Dave Alvey, Brendan Clifford

Corkery On Anglo-Irish Literature (extract)

Fifth Column: British Media Refights WWII—Again; Capitalist Confusion—Or Capitalists Confused

Northern News Digest: What Do They Know?; Bobbed; Sands Funny; Sue Mo; Clubbing 1; DAAD Letter; Patten All Round; Clubbing 2

Independence Commemoration. Jack Lane

Harris Comes To Bury Labour, Not To Praise It: Paddy Devlin Obituary. Sean McGouran

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Housing: Trailing Fianna Fail!; Labour: Ray Kavanagh's Resignation


November 1999

Will o' The Wisp. Editorial

The Golden Circle. John Martin

A Roman View Of Lawyers

Poppycock. Editorial

Fifth Column: Praise the Lord?; Old Habits Die Hard; Athol Books; Michael Mac Liammoir; Humanists; Music At War

A Labour Welcome For Patten. Report: Clr. Mark Langhammer

"Memories Of The RUC". Report

World War Two And The Indian Army. Sean McGouran (TV Review)

Dublin South-Central By-Election. Report

Northern News Digest: Arson Attacks; Oglaigh na hEireann; NIUP Briefing; Et Tu Taylor?; Esmond Birnie; Earnings Gap; Eeny Meeny Mandy Mo; Patten Petition; Employment

The Last September: Report on Elizabeth Bowen film

Thomas Moore: Pioneer Of Pluralist Ireland. Manus O'Riordan

Palestine On The Internet: A Review. Esme Geering

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: East Timor!


December 1999

Guns Before Government. Edit.

Boer War Anniversary. Brendan Clifford

Fifth Column: West Britain Once Again; Cultural Imperialism Proceeds; Harris Quangoed Blackguarding Dev? S. McGouran

What Prods Think (Book Review). S.McGouran

Northern News Digest: Orange, Red & Blue; Lodge Mystery; Ourselves &Tone; Real IRA Threat; George Cross; 58-42 For Trimble; Murder Machine; Post-Condition; Democracy

Young Ireland: & The 1918 Election Again (Letter & Reply). Radex; B. Clifford

Kosovo: Some Black Propaganda. Sean McGouran

Index To Magazine For 1999

LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: An Australian Republic (Patrick O'Beirne); Public Services In Germany; Thomas Davis On Anglo-American Profit Motive


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