Garret FitzGerald asked Ronald Reagan to intervene at height of hunger strike

Free Leonard Peltier!

What democracy was Garret talking about. The partition of Ireland was undemocratic. The Acto of Union annexing Ireland into a United Kingdom was undemocratic. The establishment of a neo-rprovincial statelet was undemocratic. How could any or all be thereatened if not democracies?

kilgara: Excellent post.

Redmond also promised a Free Ireland for Irish who joined to fight the Hun!

Fitz must have been hitting the sauce pretty good to have come up with that 'Idea' about 'Sir Ronald' helping the same people he considered 'Terrorist'

It's too bad Fitzgerald publicly supported the British position and was not man enough to say this out loud. Redmond warned the British privately not to harm the leaders of the 1916 rising too but they were murdered anyway.

I believe Reagan was basically a figurehead president. The policies he supposedly espoused were fed to him by his inner circle, {including very substantially his tres Anglo wife Nancy Davis}.Most of this inner circle had the same mindset as the British Foreign Office and that witch Thatcher.To believe that these people would feel any simpatico with the heroic hunger strikers is beyond naive.This administration went on to break the back of the air-traffic controllers strike which was a turning point and a catastrophe for the labor union movement in this country.Working people have been paying the price ever since.Reagan was a sham president and a sham Irishman

I think FitzGerald must have made the assumption that someone with an Irish surname must feel an affinity with Ireland. Reagan was about as Irish as OBama.

I remember Thatcher addressing Irish-Americans on television, warning them about getting involved in NI.

Shows what a fool Fitzgerald was. Thatcher and Reagan were bosom buddies.

I remember this. Reagan and Thatcher have a cold-blooded history together.