Those who seek change need to get on with constructing a robust and
persuasive case for a united Ireland, writes QUB academic Colin Harvey.
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Unity debate can’t wait until unionists are ready
Those who seek change need to get on with constructing a robust and
persuasive case for a united Ireland, writes QUB academic Colin Harvey.
Published August 14, 2021
A report on the horrors committed by British forces in
implementing internment without trial in the north of Ireland.
‘Operation Demetrius’ began fifty years ago this week.
Published August 7, 2021
Families will never give up on loved ones
Johnson and Lewis have ensured by their duplicity that the legacy issue will remain unresolved. It will continue to dominate much of the political discourse in the North.
Published July 31, 2021
Should the Invincibles be reburied in Glasnevin Cemetery?
The Irish National Invincibles were a splinter group of the IRB who had
five members hanged and buried in Kilmainham Gaol in 1883 for an attack
in which two senior British civil servants died. A campaign is underway
for their reinterment.
Published July 24, 2021
Legacy plan will be unworkable but British don't care
Anyone reading yesterday’s British government command paper, ‘Addressing the Legacy of NI’s Past’, should be warned to keep a suitable receptacle nearby to contain the disgusting product of the nausea this exercise in hypocrisy, doublethink and colonial condescension will induce.
Published July 17, 2021
No healing for Bloody Sunday families
The announcement that Bloody Sunday prosecutions have been halted cast a shadow over Derry that contrasted with the bright skies of June 15, 2010, when it appeared that the victims would be treated properly.
Published July 10, 2021
Master plan for Moore Street unveiled
We have Irish governments with no sense of the history of their own land, no imagination, no sense of history and no vision for the future, as the historic Moore Street base of the 1916 Rising remains derelict and sealed off from the public.
Published July 3, 2021
Springhill – ‘the forgotten massacre’
Springhill is often regarded as the ‘forgotten massacre’, having
received very little coverage in the mainstream media, but the people of
West Belfast have never forgotten.
Published June 19, 2021
One of the most important battles during the Irish War of Independence
took place 100 years ago this week. A look at a famous episode in Mayo
history.
Published June 12, 2021
Time for Boris Johnson to stop playing the fool
It’s somewhat stating the obvious but Joe Biden is not some angry
councillor who phones his local paper every week in order to boost his
profile.
Published June 12, 2021
A couple of weeks ago you read here that electing Poots leader would hasten the demise of the DUP.
Published June 5, 2021
Ballymurphy - A conspiracy of cover-up
The reality is that the Coroner’s conclusions in the Ballymurphy case will not have surprised the security mandarins that run the British system. Every government, Conservative and Labour, has known the truth of these events since they first occurred.
Published May 29, 2021
The final days of Patsy O’Hara
INLA Volunteer, Patsy O’Hara was one of three INLA Volunteers who died whilst on Hunger Strike, along with the seven Volunteers from the IRA. Patsy survived 61 days on hunger strike from 21 March 1981 until 21 May 1981 when he died, 40 years ago this week.
Published May 22, 2021
The blanket men and a man from America
It was the desperate plight of prisoners In the North of Ireland and the death of Bobby Sands that took me 3000 miles across the Atlantic to meet the Elliott family, whose ancestors long ago had left Derry and settled in the USA.
Published May 15, 2021
Why can’t the EU say the word apartheid?
Human Rights Watch has issued a landmark report concluding that Israel commits the crimes of apartheid and persecution against the Palestinian people.
Published May 8, 2021
New DUP will bring down Stormont
The four letters circulating against DUP leader Arlene Foster are four different versions of the same suicide note.
Published April 30, 2021
Are British soldiers above the law for Irish murders?
Boris Johnson has told the British parliament final
preparations were being made to a draft bill that would in effect
provide protection from prosecution for British soldiers that served in
the North of Ireland.
Published April 24, 2021
Unionists have failed to stop progress
There’s one aspect of the chronically defective unionist leadership through the decades that you have to admit: consistency.
Published April 17, 2021
Bobby Sands’ victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone 40 years ago this week gave the republican movement a “victory that not even countless IRA military operations could have achieved”, according to a former prisoner in the H-Blocks.
Published April 10, 2021
Commentator Joe Brolly has responded to RTE’s controversial effort to silence him during a TV
debate on a united Ireland.
Published April 2, 2021
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