The members of the Brehon Law Society of Nassau
County, N. Y. are a talented and dedicated group. Donating their time, they work
hard to turn the promise of human rights into reality. Their efforts have
tangible effects on the day-to-day lives of people. The projects which the law
society pursues in turn enrich the lives of the law society members who
participate in them. Human rights work is work that gives worth and meaning to
being a member of the legal community. Membership in the Brehon Law Society of
Nassau County, N.Y. gives you the opportunity to participate in human
rights-related projects and to work on them in conjunction with highly skilled
and principled colleagues. Here are descriptions of some our recent
activities:
- Consul General Tim
O'Connor
- On May
22, 2006 Meeting was addressed by main speaker Tim O'Connor, Consul
General of Ireland, and by
Malachy McAllister,
political refugee who continues to fight deportation, and by Paddy
O'Hanlon, a veteran civil rights campaigner.
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- DUP
Discussions - On April 5, 2006, a small delegation of Brehon members had
the opportunity to meet with Democratic Unionist Party MPs Peter
Robinson, Jeffrey Donaldson and Iris Donaldson during their trip to
New York. The two hour conference provided a rare
opportunity for a frank and wide-ranging exchange of views
between that party's representatives and members of the Irish
American community.
- Meeting with
Gerry Adams - Brehons met on March 14, 2006 with Gerry Adams, following a
presentation by the Sinn Fein leader on the relevance of the lessons
of the Irish peace process to other international conflicts around
the world.
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-
Call for Restoration of Good Friday Institutions
In January, 2006 we joined other Irish American organizations
in demanding that the British government restore democratic institutions
in the north of Ireland.
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- Adams Visa Restrictions In November, 2005 we were prominent in
criticizing the Bush Administration for imposing visa restrictions
on Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams to the detriment of the Irish peace
process.
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-
NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
joined us for lunch and an update on Irish issues on May 3, 2004.
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- Sean Mackin
was
the featured guest at our May, 2004 meeting. He is
a well known Irish republican, originally from Belfast and has for many years
been a resident of New York City. He is an
American citizen who won political refugee status in
a landmark decision a number of years ago in the US
courts.
Seán
was arrested and detained while visiting
his family in Belfast during the Easter weekend in a blatant attempt to
chill Irish American activism and to derail
the Irish peace process.
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-
St.
Patrick's Day Party
Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton was our guest of honor at our St. Patrick's Day
party in Manhattan on March 19, 2004
-
Eamonn Dornan and
Malachy McAllister
On December
9, 2003,
Eamonn Dornan Esq. and
Malachy McAllister updated us on the
struggle of the McAllister family to remain safely in the United States as
political refugees from Northern Ireland.
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Police Reform after the Good Friday Agreement -
Potential Unfulfilled?
On November
10, 2003,
Patrick J. Lynch, President of the NYC Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
reported to us on the current status of police reform in the six counties.
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John McNicholl
In July, 2003, we lent our support to protest the deportation of political
refugee John McNichol. more>>
-
Jeanie Johnston Reception
On July 10, 2003
The Brehon Law Societies of the NY Metro area sponsored a cocktail party on
board the Jeanie Johntson, a replica of a 19th Century Famine
ship when it called into New York harbor, during its historic visit to
North America.
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Eyewitness Parades Report
On
June 23, 2003,
we hosted a
presentation by Dorothy Bukantz and Sean Cahill, veteran Observers in Northern
Ireland and the primary authors of the extremely impressive and well received
report Parading Paramiltarism.
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- History of the
Orange Order
May 19, 2003, historian Christine Kinealy presented an address covering
both the history of the Orange Order and of the Great Hunger of the 19th
Century
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- Short Strand
April 21, 2003, eyewitness report from the Colombia Three trial and a resident
of Belfast's beleaguered Short Strand.
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- Northern Ireland Roundtable
On
April 5, 2003, we hosted a symposium led by Sen. Clinton, Reps. King and Crowley of NY and and
Sen. Dooley of Co. Clare at Nassau C.C.
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- Presentation by Martin McGuinness
On
January 27, 2003, Martin McGuinness, MP, MLA addressed a gathering hosted by the
Nassau and Suffolk Brehon Law Societies and Friends of Sinn Féin.
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