Tuesday, April 30, 2002
End of the Semester.
I hope everyone doesn't stress too much on exams and that you all have a wonderful summer. Next Year the Irish Law Society will continue its tradition of bringing in speakers and fit in the occasional social. Auditions will be ongoing to replace the vocal stylings of Murph.
Peter Beirne
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Tuesday, April 09, 2002
A Talk By Liam Maskey
"Brick by Brick - The Struggle to Cement Relations Between Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant Communities"
Liam Maskey is a former political prisoner who is the founder and director of INTERCOMM, a peace initiative group that works to bring the people of north Belfast out of a violent past.
12:15PM
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Room 120, Lawschool
Free Pizza Provided
ALSO:
Join Us Thursday Night, April 11th, at Club 23, for the Irish Law's last 'Social' of the year - the Irish music starts playing and Guinness starts flowing at 9:30pm. Admission at the door.Liam Maskey
More About Liam Maskey:
Liam Maskey, Director of the Belfast-based INTERCOMM cross-community initiative, will address the Irish Law Society on building Catholic-Protestant relations in Northern Ireland.
Liam Maskey is a prominent cross-community worker in North Belfast, the area with the highest number of fatalities in the last thirty years of violence. Interned without trial in the 1970s, Maskey subsequently committed himself to peace-activism and economic regeneration and renewal. He is the founder of the Newington-Cavehill Community Services Association, a community-based employment initiative that introduced over 1000 long-term unemployed people in predominantly Catholic districts into working for and improving their communities. Realizing that some Protestant communities faced similar social and economic problems, Maskey began a dialogue with Protestant community workers that resulted in the formation of the cross-community INTERCOMM organization in 1995.
INTERCOMM has aggressively tackled the social and economic deprivation that characterized life in North Belfast while offering practical grassroots solutions to difficult political issues affecting local communities. It has also developed programs that promote cross-community tolerance, respect and understanding.
Maskey has participated in fact-finding missions to Central America to examine the role of ex-combatants in social reconstruction and facilitated political study visits to South Africa for Belfast community and political leaders. At home, he helped initiate the dialogue that resulted in a ceasefire by the republican INLA in the late 1990s and he has played a part in having death threats against Protestant community workers lifted.
Maskey has represented North Belfast at White House Conferences on Ireland and will participate in the White House Small Business Conference on Ireland later this year.
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The Irish Law Society Presents:
A Talk By Liam Maskey
"Brick by Brick - The Struggle to Cement Relations Between Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant Communities"
Liam Maskey is a former political prisoner who is the founder and director of INTERCOMM, a peace initiative group that works to bring the people of north Belfast out of a violent past.
12:15PM
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Room 120, Lawschool
Free Pizza Provided
ALSO:
Join Us Thursday Night, April 11th, at Club 23, for the Irish Law's last 'Social' of the year - the Irish music starts playing and Guinness starts flowing at 9:30pm. Admission at the door.Liam Maskey
More About Liam Maskey:
Liam Maskey, Director of the Belfast-based INTERCOMM cross-community initiative, will address the Irish Law Society on building Catholic-Protestant relations in Northern Ireland.
Liam Maskey is a prominent cross-community worker in North Belfast, the area with the highest number of fatalities in the last thirty years of violence. Interned without trial in the 1970s, Maskey subsequently committed himself to peace-activism and economic regeneration and renewal. He is the founder of the Newington-Cavehill Community Services Association, a community-based employment initiative that introduced over 1000 long-term unemployed people in predominantly Catholic districts into working for and improving their communities. Realizing that some Protestant communities faced similar social and economic problems, Maskey began a dialogue with Protestant community workers that resulted in the formation of the cross-community INTERCOMM organization in 1995.
INTERCOMM has aggressively tackled the social and economic deprivation that characterized life in North Belfast while offering practical grassroots solutions to difficult political issues affecting local communities. It has also developed programs that promote cross-community tolerance, respect and understanding.
Maskey has participated in fact-finding missions to Central America to examine the role of ex-combatants in social reconstruction and facilitated political study visits to South Africa for Belfast community and political leaders. At home, he helped initiate the dialogue that resulted in a ceasefire by the republican INLA in the late 1990s and he has played a part in having death threats against Protestant community workers lifted.
Maskey has represented North Belfast at White House Conferences on Ireland and will participate in the White House Small Business Conference on Ireland later this year.
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