One hundred years ago this week, the Civil War came to an end. Peace
settled on the country, but the conflict left a bitter legacy that not
only divided the country politically but also broke families apart — and
the effects reverberated through generations.
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How the Civil War tore families apart
One hundred years ago this week, the Civil War came to an end. Peace
settled on the country, but the conflict left a bitter legacy that not
only divided the country politically but also broke families apart — and
the effects reverberated through generations.
Published June 1, 2023
Frankly, there will be an audible sigh of relief in Westminster if it
looks like Northern Ireland will be voted out of existence in the next
few years.
Published June 1, 2023
A Unionist veto dressed as conflict resolution
Imagine people in Britain were told Brexit would not happen because only
a narrow majority had voted for it? That the issue was so divisive it
required a supermajority of 60 percent before it passed?
Published May 25, 2023
Britain is continuing the Palestinian catastrophe
Britain’s role in the Nakba, the Palestinian displacement of 75 years
ago, is not restricted to its actions in the 20th century, writes Leanne
Mohamad, a British Palestinian human rights activist based in London.
Published May 18, 2023
Interview with family of Adrian Carroll
In a rare interview the brothers and sisters of Adrian Carroll have told
how they continue to “remember him every day” despite the passing of
four decades.
Published May 18, 2023
Black flag vigils are taking place in Dublin and elsewhere on Friday to
mark the anniversary of the death of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands.
The following piece by Sands was originally published in 1978.
Published May 4, 2023
Following the reported death of Freddie Scappaticci, Anthony McIntyre
recalls the bitter divisions over the ‘Stakeknife’ allegations that the
head of the Provisional IRA’s Internal Security Unit was a British
agent. For The Pensive Quill.
Published April 27, 2023
Looking forward to the next 25 years
A quarter century on from the Belfast Agreement, we look to the next 25
years, committed to work together to build a better, more prosperous
future for all the people of this island.
Published April 20, 2023
The British never wanted Biden
Joe Biden’s visit to Belfast, or more accurately, a carefully restricted
bit of Belfast, wasn’t the visit he intended or had hoped it to be.
Published April 20, 2023
An interview given by former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to Freya
McClements of the Irish Times to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good
Friday Agreement.
Published April 13, 2023
Vindication of a campaign for truth and justice
A Belfast court has posthumously awarded compensation to the family of
Liam Holden, who was tortured and assaulted by British soldiers in the
1970s. Documents show the use of electric shocks and sexual assault were
commonly inflicted on prisoners.
Published March 30, 2023
Interview with Mary Lou McDonald
Sinn Féin Party Leader Mary Lou McDonald recently held a wide-ranging
interview with German publication ‘Der Spiegel’ about why she thinks a
reunification referendum could take place within a decade.
Published March 30, 2023
Unionists should be thanking Rishi Sunak, who has made the idea of grown-up politics and the severing of knotty political problems doable.
Published March 2, 2023
Interview with Eilish McCabe, sister of Aidan McAnespie
On the 35th anniversary of Aidan McAnespie’s murder, in the weeks after
his killer was allowed to walk free after a court conviction, an
interview by journalist John Scally with Eilish McCabe, Mr McAnespie’s
sister, before she lost her brave battle with illness.
Published February 23, 2023
DUP are Conservative Party pawns
The people of Northern Ireland are once again collateral damage, just as we were for the last campaign of ‘getting Brexit done’.
Published February 23, 2023
‘Big in heart and spirit’ Sinn Féin councillor John Davey was killed by
loyalists in 1989, just two days after the murder of Pat Finucane.
Published February 16, 2023
Protocol defeat is huge setback for Unionism
Having already lost their case in the High Court and Court of Appeal, we
can be permitted a measure of schadenfreude at the host of unionist
luminaries who rolled the dice a third time only to have the Supreme
Court return a unanimous verdict that the protocol is entirely legal and
proper.
Published February 16, 2023
Ambrose Hardy had to get home. Trapped in a bar in the New Lodge area of
north Belfast by the shooting that was going on outside, he was afraid
his mother would be worried and come looking for him.
Published February 9, 2023
St Brigid’s holiday celebrates Irish women
The first Irish bank holiday to be named after a woman has taken place in Ireland.
Published February 9, 2023
Learn the Irish national anthem
A new campaign is calling on everyone in Ireland to learn the words to
Amhrán na bhFiann.
Published February 2, 2023
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