[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 30 (Thursday, March 17, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 17, 1994]
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                      STOP THE VIOLENCE IN IRELAND

  (Mr. HINCHEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we 
observe that all around the world the last vestiges of colonialism and 
colonial rule have disappeared or are disappearing. Free people are 
determining their own future in their own land. Here in this House and 
across our country we celebrate the self-determination of people and 
the spirit of our own independence hard won more than 200 years ago.
  There is one glaring, sad exception to this almost universal escape 
to freedom. It is the longest standing occupation of one nation by 
another in modern history. It is time for it to end.
  Ireland is one country, one people. It is time to stop the violence 
fed by bigotry in Ireland, time for the British Government to leave 
Ireland so the Irish people can rule themselves in their own land.

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