Ironically one issue the DUP, the former party of Ian Paisley, will seek to explore is a more open border with the Irish Republic Continue reading
Filed under NI …
Hard Border revisited and threatened anew
It was the first time that a Unionist leader had attended an Ulster GAA final. Continue reading
Prisoners of Memory
Beside such extreme acts of violence, ordinary life was of course lived ordinarily, decently, by scores of citizens. The vast majority of people wanted no truck with the killing. Continue reading
St Patrick Visitor Centre, Downpatrick
… a site for community engagement across the Catholic-Protestant divide. Continue reading
Particularies of Time and Space
It is not just landscape and history and personal objects and events that shape us, but also the more casual and systematic reading we do …. Continue reading
The Wing Orderly’s Tales.
It might all lead to dull or grim stories, but Gebler’s characters are all human, damaged certainly, but each with his own story.
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The Irish History Circle Meeting July 2017
‘The Orange Order Parades’
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Teenage Kicks – A Musical Journey
My first ‘dance’, a hop, as it was known then, was at the local ‘Legion of Mary’, organised by a fellow teenager…. Continue reading
One Ireland?
A persuasive argument that unification between Northern Ireland and the Republic is inevitable before very long ….. Continue reading
The troubles of DI Sean Duffy
That Sean Duffy, McKinty’s main character, is a Catholic means that his Northern Irish police superiors are unsure of him and that he is as much an outsider on the Gerry Adams side of his society as on the Ian Paisley side. Continue reading
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