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Michael Magee
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Novel: Close to Home @hamishh1931 & @fsgbooks (US) | Agent: @eleanorbirne
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    Michael Magee
    @michaelmagee__
    Jan 11, 2024
    Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh was inspired to become a lawyer after learning about Majella O’Hare, a 12 y/o child from Armagh who was shot in the back & killed by a British soldier in 1976 She went crying to her mother and her mother said, ‘Do something about it’ Now look where she is
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    Al Jazeera English
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    Jan 11, 2024
    Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh who is supporting South Africa's legal team at the ICJ, says the number of orphans caused by ‘Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza’ has led to the need for a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.
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    Michael Magee
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    Jul 20, 2025
    the British Army in the 1970s:
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    Rory Tracker
    @RoryTrackr
    Jul 20, 2025
    It’s a wonderful morning to shoot 63 in Northern Ireland
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    Michael Magee
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    Oct 15, 2024
    Mike Jackson was second-in-command of the first battalion of the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday in Derry on Jan 30, 1972 14 people, (six of whom were 17 year old boys) were murdered that day by the paras, and Mike Jackson did everything in his power to cover it up he was
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    British Army 🇬🇧
    @BritishArmy
    Oct 15, 2024
    It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of General Sir Mike Jackson GCB, CBE, DSO, on 15 October surrounded by his family. General ‘Jacko’ served with distinction for over 40 years, finishing his career as Chief of the General Staff. He will be greatly
    A British Army officer is facing the camera, wearing a maroon beret and a green camouflage uniform. In the background is green foliage.
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    Michael Magee
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    May 9, 2022
    It’s even better than I remember
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    Michael Magee
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    Aug 3, 2024
    they can bus all far right loyalist patriots into Belfast all the want, they’ll still be outnumbered, outsang, and outclassed every day of the week solidarity to everyone who turned up with 48 hours notice, and to Mick Lynch for his gorgeous wee baldy head
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    Michael Magee
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    Aug 21, 2022
    eight pints in and somebody introduces me to their English cousin who doesn’t doesn’t know anything about the troubles
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    Michael Magee
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    Jul 28, 2024
    Armagh v Galway Oliver Plunkett Park, Crossmaglen 1999
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    Michael Magee
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    Jul 14, 2021
    Thinking today about Carol Ann Kelly, who was murdered by the British Army less than ten yards from her house as she walked home carrying milk from the shop. She was 12 years old.
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    Michael Magee
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    May 6, 2024
    we lost Zadie when she reduced the conflict in the North of Ireland down to ‘minor doctrinal differences’ that seemingly had nothing to do with British colonialism or the centuries long dispossession and subjugation of the Irish / Catholic population
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    A quote from the essay, “The Role of Words in the Campus Protests,” by Zadie Smith.
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    The New Yorker
    @NewYorker
    May 5, 2024
    In a new essay, Zadie Smith writes about the destructive role of language in the campus protests over the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/K8suwS4
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    Michael Magee
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    Jul 26, 2023
    ‘Don’t let the bastards get you down…’ ‘I’m not down.’
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    Michael Magee
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    Apr 13, 2024
    Andrew Neil: ‘people turned their backs against the terrorism Sands symbolised…’ Bobby Sands’ funeral (100,000 people turned up to mourn his death):
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    Andrew Neil
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    Apr 12, 2024
    The new Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. Elected by the students. Quoting Bobby Sands and Che Guevara. Like a juvenile student politician. Best not to say too much. But Sands is not immortal. He’s dead. And if children are able to laugh in Belfast today it’s because
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    Michael Magee
    @michaelmagee__
    Jun 12, 2025
    remember the burning of Bombay Street remember that over 3000 catholic families were forced out of their homes / made homeless between August and September 1969 remember how the Northern state was initiated and sustained by pogroms against the minority Catholic population
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    Michael Magee
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    Nov 10, 2023
    BELFAST, CORK, DUBLIN, GALWAY 4 cities, 4 massive literary events 20+ Irish writers, reading, standing in solidarity with Palestine Tickets on sale Monday 13th November, 10am More details here: irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
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    Michael Magee
    @michaelmagee__
    Aug 3, 2024
    loyalists were calling us fenian b*stards while these balloons stood alongside them waving tricolours 🫠
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    Thomas Forrestal 🇮🇪
    @RepublicanMLM
    Aug 3, 2024
    Mask off moment for the Brit controlled "Irish patriots" visiting Belfast today I see
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