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UPDATE: Francis Boyle
attends War Crimes Tribunal in Malaya
Video: http://youtu.be/pZxa0-IXl_U
UNITED IRELAND, HUMAN RIGHTS
and INTERNATIONAL LAW
by
Francis A. Boyle
ISBN:
978-0-9833539-2-8 202 pp. $16.95
Available in
North
America and UK/Europe
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Clarity Press, Inc.

During the past three decades, international legal
expert Francis A.Boyle has dealt with some of the most
difficult problems created by Britains continued
military occupation of six northeast counties in Ireland.
In so doing, he along with other Irish Americans engaged
the formidable Irish American domestic lobby in support
of the Irish resistance.
This book addresses some of the most important aspects of
their historic campaignsthe struggle to prevent
deportation of Irish freedom-fighter,Joe Doherty, the
protest against the U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty of 2006,
the effort to engage U.S. multinationals in implementing
the MacBride Principles to roll back discrimination
against Catholics in Northern Ireland.
But most significantly, Boyle makes the legal case for
viewing the horrific Irish Potato
Faminethe Irish Hecatombas a result,
not of laissez-faire economic policy, but of intentional
British genocide.
This is the definitive book on all legal/political/human
rights aspects of the Irish conflict, including
Britains international legal obligation to
decolonize Northern Ireland and going forward, a legal
and human rights framework for establishing a United
Ireland where all Irish can live in peace with justice
for all irrespective of their differences.
United Ireland, Human Rights, and International Law
is required reading for Irish Americans, people living in
Ireland, and the Irish Diaspora around the world.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Dedication Irish America
Chapter 1.
The Irish Hecatomb: The Legal Case for the
Potato Famine as British Genocide / 19
Chapter 2
The Decolonization of Northern Ireland / 64
Chapter 3.
Putting Britains Colonial War in Ireland
on Trial in the USA / 89
Chapter 4.
The Struggle to Free Joe Doherty / 99
Chapter 5.
Opposing the U.S.U.K. Extradition Treaty / 123
Chapter 6.
Advocating the MacBride Principles for
Northern Ireland / 154
Chapter 7.
Sparing Robert John MacBride / 184
Chapter 8.
Designing United Ireland / 188
Index
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Dual
National FRANCIS BOYLE (right)
with SEAN
MACBRIDE, S.C.
Foreign
Minister for the Republic of Ireland
Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate and
Chief of
Staff of the Irish Republican Army
FRANCIS A. BOYLE is a leading American expert in
international law. He was responsible for drafting the
Biological
Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American
implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons
Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of
Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina
at the
World Court. He served as legal adviser to the
Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace
negotiations from 1991 to
1993. In 2007, he delivered the Bertrand Russell Peace
Lectures. Professor Boyle teaches international law at
the University
of Illinois, Champaign and is author of, inter alia, The
Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy,
Foundations of World Order,
The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence,
Palestine,
Palestinians and International
Law,
Destroying
World Order,
Biowarfare
& Terrorism,
Tackling
Americas Toughest
Questions,
The
Tamil Genocide
by Sri Lanka
The
Palestinian
Right
of Return
Under International
Law.
He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D.
in Political Science, both from Harvard
University.
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