"Lethal Allies" CCJHR joint talk
‘Lethal Allies: The Collapse of the Rule of Law in the N. Ireland Conflict’
Speakers: Anne Cadwallader (Pat Finucane Human Rights Centre and Author of ‘Lethal Allies’)
Margaret Urwin (Justice for the Forgotten)
CCJHR was happy to host this event on Thursday afternoon, Oct 16th 4.15-6pm, in the School of Law
The seminar was organised by the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, in association with the School of Applied Social Studies, the U.C.C. Conflict and Peace Studies Research Cluster and the LLM International Human Rights Law and Public Policy
About the speakers
Anne Cadwallader
London-born Anne Cadwallader trained as a journalist in Britain before joining BBC Northern Ireland in 1981, covering the conflict on both sides of the border in Ireland. She has since been Political Correspondent in Dublin and Northern Editor in Belfast for the Irish Press Group and has also worked for The Irish Echo (New York), The Christian Science Monitor (Boston) Reuters and RTE covering the Irish peace process. She wrote “Holy Cross: The Untold Story” (Brehon Press) in 2004 and in 2009, she quit journalism to become a Case Worker with The Pat Finucane Human Rights Centre in Armagh. In 2013 she authored “Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland” (Mercier Press) a best-selling book based on research carried out by the Centre. The book is based on original research of British state archives in Kew Gardens, London, and reports from the PSNI’s own Historical Enquiries Team into deaths occurring during the conflict.
Margaret Urwin
Margaret Urwin has worked since 1993 with ‘Justice for the Forgotten’, the organisation representing the families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and other cross border bombings. (The Dublin and Monaghan bombings took place on 17 May 1974 and caused the deaths of 34 people - the greatest loss of life in a single day of the conflict). Their work led to the establishment of two private, non-judicial, inquiries by the Irish Government which resulted in:
- The Barron Report (2003) into the Dublin & Monaghan bombings.
- The Second Barron Report (2004) into the '72 & '73 Dublin bombings (and associated reports).
- The Fourth Barron Report. (July 2006) into the Dundalk and Castleblayney bombings.
- The MacEntee Report (2007) of the Commission of Investigation into the Dublin & Monaghan bombings.
All reports reveal a significant amount of disturbing information about the actions/inactions of both the Irish and British states in relation to the bombings. In 2010 Justice for the Forgotten merged with the Pat Finucane Centre. A native of County Wexford, Margaret is a graduate of the Open University and NUI Maynooth and has an MA in Local History.