Edward Horgan
 Edward Horgan  ( officer, peace activist) | |
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| Born | 1945 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Trinity College (Dublin) |
Former Irish army officer and peace activist. Took the Irish Government to the High Court over breaches of Irish Neutrality and U.S. military use of Shannon airport | |
Edward Horgan is a former Irish army officer and peace activist.[1][2]
Career
Horgan joined the Army cadet school in 1963 and was commissioned as an officer in 1965. He served with U.N. peacekeeping missions in Cyprus and the Middle East in the 1970s. While serving with the U.N. in Cyprus in 1966, 1971 and 1973 and in the Middle East in 1973-74, it was his duty to explain the basic concepts of international law to the soldiers under his command.[3]
After leaving the military, he took a degree in history, politics, and social studies in 2001 and a master's in philosophy (peace studies) degree by Trinity College in 2000. He has worked on over 20 election monitoring missions in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, and Africa. He completed a PhD thesis on reform of the United Nations in 2008.[4]
He is international secretary with the Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Chairperson and founder of Veterans For Peace Ireland, and a peace activist with Shannonwatch. His many peace activities include the case of Horgan v Ireland, in which he took the Irish Government to the High Court over breaches of Irish Neutrality and U.S. military use of Shannon airport, and a high profile court case resulting from his attempt to arrest U.S. President George W. Bush in Ireland in 2004.
In 2023, two peace activists, including Horgan, were acquitted by a jury of criminal damage charges after they trespassed and damaged a US naval aircraft at Shannon Airport. It was alleged that the two men were involved in writing "Danger, danger, don't fly" on the craft using markers after ignoring a request to stop by Irish Defence Force personnel.[5]
Opinions
“If a united Ireland is to happen, it must be an actively neutral united Ireland promoting global justice and not a united Ireland within NATO, or commitments to European Defence Union or other military alliances. It the event of a united Ireland it is likely that some of the Unionist community in Northern Ireland will want to remain as part of NATO, because of the historical and cultural connections with Britain. The government of the Republic of Ireland and others may use these developments to take Ireland into full membership of NATO and/or full membership of a European Defence Union. If this were to happen, it will mean the abandonment of our hard achieved Irish independence from the British empire and replacing it with an even more abusive US-dominated nuclear-armed NATO empire, or an undemocratic militarised EU.”
Edward Horgan (August 2025) [6]
A Document by Edward Horgan
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| File:CIA Shannon Report 9 2 09.pdf | report | 9 February 2008 | CIA "Extraordinary rendition" |
References
- ↑ https://worldbeyondwar.org/ed-horgan/
- ↑ https://www.statewatch.org/media/documents/cia/documents/cv-edward-horgan.pdf
- ↑ https://peaceandplanetnews.org/author/edwardhorgan/
- ↑ https://worldbeyondwar.org/ed-horgan/
- ↑ https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/01/25/peace-activists-spared-jail-over-trespassing-at-shannon-airport/
- ↑ https://genevaneutrality.ch/en/research/neutralityforpeaceandhumanity-irishview
