October 18, 2024

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING

Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus

Roisin Henderson. The Fermanagh Herald. Ireland. Oct.  16, 2024.

On Wednesday, October 27, 1976, in Pittsburgh, PA, I organized an Irish National Caucus meeting with Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter—just six days before he was elected President of the United States. He made a magnificent, historic statement: “…it is a mistake for our  country’s Government to stand quiet on the struggle of the Irish for peace, for respect for human rights, and for unifying Ireland.”

It was the first time since The King-in Parliament has perpetrated the racist and anti-Catholic partition of Ireland, December 23, 1920, that a Candidate—just six days after being elected President—ever issued such words.

The British government went crazy, and worst of all, the awful  Garret FitzGerald, Irish Foreign Minister —who was referred to by  MI6 operatives as “dear Garret”— dutifully and cravenly demanded Carter to prove he was not supporting violence. The Boston Globe reported, “Irish Embassy officials protested vehemently to Carter aides.”… How utterly shameful and disgraceful. As I record in my Memoirs, My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland  (2023.U.S.A.RE-PRINT. ON AMAZON),  had FitzGerald welcomed Carter’s statement like Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (God rest him)  welcomed Presidential  Candidate  Clinton’s statement on April 5, 1992, how much earlier the Irish Peace Process could have begun and how many precious lives could have been saved —because I always knew that the only thing that would curb England’s blood-lust, brutality, racism and anti-Catholicism was pressure from America. … And England knew this…So, England activated Fitz-Gerald to do its dirty work, as England always did throughout its racist and evil Empire.”