Daniel Baker
Daniel Baker (@handloomlament) is a writer, FE worker and trade unionist. He writes about the history of Irish republicanism on his blog The Echo of the Thunder. His writing on film and music can be found at Hand Loom Lament
Twitter: @handloomlament
Articles by Daniel Baker:
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A Negative Peace: 50 Years Since Bloody Sunday
It is impossible to understand the Bogside Massacre without acknowledging the colonialist nature of British occupation in Ireland.
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On the Finucane family's Struggle for Justice and the Collusion of the British State
The Government's refusal of a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane is part of a cover up state collusion and an attempt to continue to obfuscate the political nature of the conflict in Ireland.
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One Man's Terrorist: Daniel Finn and Daniel Baker in conversation.
Throughout the conflict, the IRA’s military capacity and significant, but not decisive, support in working class Catholic communities gave it a power of negative veto but little chance of outright victory.