During the past three decades, international legal expert Francis A.Boyle has dealt with some of the most difficult problems created byBritain’s continued military occupation of six northeast counties inIreland. 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 campaigns—the 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 Famine”—the Irish Hecatomb—as 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 Britain’s 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 Britain’s 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
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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 America’s
Toughest Questions, The Tamil
Genocide by Sri Lanka and 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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