British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to establish a Centenary Forum and a Centenary Historical Advisory Plan as part of his government’s plans to mark 100 years of the Northern state.
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Partition sucks. It doesn’t merit celebration
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to establish a Centenary Forum and a Centenary Historical Advisory Plan as part of his government’s plans to mark 100 years of the Northern state.
Published September 4, 2020
The shooting of a member of Britain’s Royal Irish Constabulary 100 years ago sparked weeks of anti-Catholic violence. An
account of an infamous episode in the town’s history which became known
as ‘The Burnings’.
Published August 28, 2020
Golfgate is a story of ruling class entitlement
Irish EU Commissioner Paul Hogan resigned on Thursday, the latest
casualty of a golf outing that showed how the class system works in
Ireland. A look at an ongoing story by Paulie Doyle, for Tribune
magazine.
Published August 28, 2020
Gaza goes dark under new terror campaign
Gaza’s electricity supply has been cut to around three hours a day as Israeli bombing of the besieged Palestinian enclave has continued for ten consecutive days.
Published August 21, 2020
Questions the BME community ask about Noah Donohoe
The handling of the disappearance and death of Noah Donohoe has also
raised concerns about systemic racism in the North of Ireland.
Published August 21, 2020
Mickey Devine: The last hunger striker to die
Mickey Devine, from the Creggan in Derry city, was the tenth and final hunger striker to die in the 1981 fight against the criminalisation of Irish republican prisoners.
Published August 14, 2020
We do not have clear and equal policing
Violence, arrests, prosecutions and incarcerations are all avoidable
if we have clear and equal policing of both sides of the divide to
include managing illegal bonfires.
Published August 14, 2020
Belfast-based political activist Fra Hughes been asked by friends in Lebanon to highlight the following appeal.
Published August 7, 2020
John’s contribution to Irish politics cannot be underestimated. When
others talked endlessly about peace John grasped the challenge and
helped make peace happen.
Published August 7, 2020
In the middle of July 1920, thousands of “disloyal” workers in Belfast
were driven out of their workplaces by unionist mobs. In the immediate
aftermath, rioting between nationalists and unionists left nineteen
people dead. This outbreak marked the start of a period of violence that
left almost five hundred dead and which became known by nationalists as
“the Belfast pogrom.”
Published July 24, 2020
There is unanimity of approach among the establishment parties in the Oireachtas when it comes to a referendum on Irish Unity – they are against it.
Published July 17, 2020
Scotland is turning the corner
A group of Scottish nationalists created a controversy this week when they symbolically 'closed the border' with England in a protest aimed at the coronavirus crisis. It signifies a new exhaustion in Scotland with a visibly collapsing England. An analysis of the increasingly popular idea of Scottish independence by Paul Kavanagh (weegingerdug).
Published July 11, 2020
Bobby Storey led from the front
In Ireland’s centuries long struggle for independence, exceptional men and women, heroes, emerged, which set them apart and around whom people rallied, inspired and motivated by them.
Published July 3, 2020
Derry 1920 - A civil war of independence
A century ago this month, conflict erupted in Derry with British state forces openly colluding with UVF gangs to quell the nationalist surge for independence.
Published June 12, 2020
Olaudah Equiano’s Irish friends
Olaudah Equiano, a former slave and the author of an influential memoir, visited Dublin and Belfast in the 1790s, mingling among the most progressive voices of the day in Irish society.
Published June 5, 2020
Even though 47 years have passed, the family of Michael Leonard is still determined to find out the full truth about his murder by the RUC on a lonely country road in Fermanagh near the border with Donegal.
Published May 22, 2020
Irish unification is still inevitable
Kevin Meaghar looks at the state of the debate on Irish Unity as the idea continues to go mainstream.
Published May 22, 2020
What is the name of this place anyways?
This week the name of this place we live in caused a bit of a political stir. The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar called Belfast members of Fine Gael, “overseas members” and a former Tyrone football player referred to Tyrone as “Up here in the UK”. But the truth is the names used for Ireland do matter and have always been contentious.
Published May 15, 2020
Áine and Eibhlín Nic Giolla Easpaig
A review of the autobiographical book ‘Sisters in Cells’ by Bernadette Hyland.
Published May 8, 2020
A historical account of this week in 1916, when the executions of the Easter Rising leaders took place.
Published May 8, 2020
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