Christopher Fogarty

Fogarty is perhaps best known for his activism in the field of the Great Hunger in Ireland of 1845-1852. He became interested in the subject in 1983 after retirement, when he was researching the life of his paternal grandfather in the Public Record Office (what is now The National Archives) at Kew, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. His grandfather had served in the 40th Regiment of Foot of the British Army (which he had joined in 1857) and Fogarty claims to have discovered that this regiment had removed food crops in southern County Galway during the Hunger (in 1847 and 1848).[3] Fogarty continued to research this line and after returning to the United States published a pamphlet entitled The Mass Graves of Ireland: 1845-1850 in which he claimed that of the 130 regiments of the British Empire, 67 were in Ireland during the Hunger exporting meats, livestock, grains, dairy and poultry products out of the country for export. The pamphlet also featured a map locating 170 mass graves in Ireland, along with the locations of British regimental deployments of the time.[3]

Fogarty's 1980s pamphlet was turned into a website on the internet in 1995, at IrishHolocaust.org which expanded on the information. Later, in 2015, he published a full length volume entitled Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it "Perfect",[4] which was printed first in the United States and then later editions in Dublin and Australia. Fogarty has sought to raise awareness of what he describes as a genocide by the British government and challenges accounts which ascribe the Hunger simply to natural circumstances. He, his wife, and friends donate to Ireland's National Graves Association. He and his wide, at the requests of locals, erect memorials at Holocaust mass graves. Most of his memorials are at mass graves in addition to those shown on his map.[5]

Fogarty and his County Limerick-born wife Mary O'Sullivan (married in 1957) became prominent Chicago-based activists in the Irish-American community during The Troubles in Northern Ireland opposing what they regarded as British injustices. They took part in campaigns to free the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, as well as taking a stance against the 1972 US-UK Extradition Treaty (later replaced by the UK–US extradition treaty of 2003). In the Chicago City Council, Fogarty and his wife worked for the enactment of the MacBride Principles for Fair Employment in Northern Ireland, which later became federal law and dealt with how the United States approached Northern Ireland economically. The two also led the Illinois campaign to release Joe Doherty, a former volunteer with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who was imprisoned in the United States in 1983 without trial and threatened with extradition to the United Kingdom for killing a member of the Special Air Service. Fogarty was chairman of the North Side chapter of the Irish American Unity Conference in 1990[6] and also worked as the Vice President of the Friends of Irish Freedom.[1] Fogarty's writings have featured in The Blanket and The Pensive Quill (Anthony McIntyre's website).[7]

Fogarty has claimed that the 1998 Omagh bombing, in which 31 people were killed, was actually the work of an “FBI/M15 Agent” named Patrick 'Ed' Buckley, and his “sidekick,” David Rupert. Fogarty has said that Michael McKevitt, who was found liable for the 1998 bombing, was “framed.” The Real IRA admitted responsibility for the bombing on 18 August 1998, saying, “It was a commercial target, part of an ongoing war against the Brits. We offer apologies to the civilians.” To this day, the RIRA driver of the bomb-car probably does not know that MI5/FBI mole Richard Rupert had infiltrated the RIRA, and that MI5 and the FBI could have arrested their RIRA contacts whenever they chose, but decided to not arrest them. The same Omagh FBI Special Agent Patrick “Ed” Buckley had previously got the Chicago news media, through TV Reporter Carol Marin, to falsely report “IRA involvement” in the murders of the Langert family while he prohibited the Winnetka police from investigating their sole suspect, the 16-year-old David Biro whose murder weapon was FBI Agent Lewis’s 357 Magnum. According to “The Accidental Spy,” MI5 and the FBI ultimately paid David Rupert $10 million due to his successful deployment with Agent Buckley in Ireland and Omagh. If anyone wishes Documentation of the double series of related FBI crimes against us in Chicago I will post them here.