Danny Morrison

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Danny Morrison (2012)

Danny Morrison (born January 9, 1953 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish journalist and writer and one of the formative intellectuals of the Republican movement in the 1980s.

Political career

After his release from internment in Long Kesh camp , he became editor-in-chief of the weekly An Phoblacht / Republican News at the age of 22 . In 1982 he became the press spokesman for Sinn Féin and from 1982 to 1986 he was a Sinn Féin member of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont . In protest against the boycott policy against Sinn Féin and SDLP , he did not take office. In both 1984 and 1989 he was the top candidate for Sinn Féin in the European elections .

He coined at a party conference debate in 1982 Slogan [Why not free Ireland with] The Armalite in one hand and the ballot box in the other , dt. [Get rid us of Ireland with the] assault rifle in one hand and the ballot box in the other , the described the strategy of the republican movement until the early 1990s.

In 1990 Danny Morrison was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in the kidnapping and attempted murder of an IRA member who worked as an informant for the British Army . He himself claimed to have prepared a press conference with the person concerned about covert operations by the British army and to have been lured into a trap. He was released five years later as part of the amnesty following the 1994 IRA ceasefire. His conviction was overturned in 2008, but the court did not disclose the reasons for this decision, as security interests were affected.

A freelance journalist and author, he now lives in Belfast and writes for the Irish Times and Andersonstown News, and is a regular guest contributor to various international newspapers including The Examiner , The Observer , The Guardian , the Washington Post and the Boston Globe .

Works

  • West Belfast (novel 1989); - German West Belfast , ISBN 3-928300-74-1 - The novel describes the origins of the so-called Troubles based on a Catholic family in the Catholic part of Belfast. It is considered to be the first literary processing of the Northern Ireland conflict .
  • On the Back Of the Swallow (Roman 1994) German. On the back of the swallow (out of print). - Morrison wrote this novel while in captivity. It describes a love story between two men that tragically ends in the hard man's world in jail.
  • The Wrong Man (Roman, 1997) German The wrong man . ISBN 3-928300-73-3 - Based on the subject of treason, the novel deals with the interpersonal conflicts of the IRA activists fighting underground.
  • Then The Walls Came Down (an autobiography based on his prison letters)
  • All The Dead Voices (A Memory, 2002)

Non-fiction books in German

  • From the labyrinth . Writings on the Road to Peace in Northern Ireland. ISBN 3-89771-000-5
  • Troubles - An Introduction to the Northern Ireland Conflict. (out of print)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Owen Bowcott: Former Sinn Fein director Danny Morrison cleared The Guardian , August 28, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Morrison, Danny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast