No Man’s Land. News Footage From The UK’s Former Hard Border In Ireland
With a significant number of anti-agreement politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom continuing to dismiss the risk of aContinue Reading
Category: Military
The M1921 Thompson Submachine Gun, The IRA And The War Of Independence
While the American-manufactured Thompson submachine gun is frequently associated with the early 20th century incarnation of the Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
The Ballymurphy Precedent. A New Documentary On The 1971 Massacre By The British Army
Between Monday the 9th and Wednesday the 11th of August 1971, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army murdered elevenContinue Reading
Ending The Troubles: How The British Came To Negotiate The Peace Process
Over the last decade the politics lecturer Niall Ó Dochartaigh has done a fantastic job of analysing the complex andContinue Reading
Brexit Defenders Of Hard Border In Ireland Reference British Army Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. That New Testament warning springs toContinue Reading
The Bomb Attacks On The Homes Of Gerry Adams And Bobby Storey
It is difficult to know what one should make of the “bomb” attacks on the Belfast homes of Gerry Adams, theContinue Reading
Spy: Annie Mary Smith And The Citizens Defence Force
The Citizens Defence Force or CDF was one of the more desperate responses by the pro-treaty Provisional Government to theContinue Reading
The Iron Age Battle Site At Alken Enge In The Illerup River Valley, Denmark
Right up to the 19th century and perhaps somewhat later, it was common practice for historians and scholars to acceptContinue Reading
The Glenanne Gang: Britain’s Soldiers Turned Gunmen During The Troubles
The Glenanne Gang was a state-backed terrorist group which operated in the United Kingdom’s embattled legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
UK Ministers Demand General Amnesty For British Army War Crimes In Ireland
Around 5.00pm on Monday the 23rd of October 1972, thirty-one-year-old Michael Naan drove into his isolated farm in the townlandContinue Reading
The Total Of Conflict-Related Deaths After 1998 And The End Of The Irish-British Troubles
Since the signing of the multiparty and intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, and up to December 2017, nearlyContinue Reading
Channel Awesome And The Justin Carmical Or JewWario Assault Allegations
At first sight, the recent troubles at the popular geek website, Channel Awesome, seemed to be little more than aContinue Reading
British Brexit Secretary David Davis Makes Speedy Secret Visit To The Border
If one were searching for a perfect metaphor to illustrate the impossibility of the United Kingdom reimposing any type ofContinue Reading
The Daily Express Invents False Quote For Brexit Fake News
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and withContinue Reading
British Labour Party Shocks MEPs By Dismissing Danger Of Hard Border In Ireland
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to openContinue Reading
British Terrorists Presented As Loyalist Paramilitaries With Statement On Criminality
There are some events, illustrative of the hypocrisy which runs through the very core of British unionism in Ireland, whichContinue Reading
Britain Prepares For Hard Border In Ireland, Rejecting Irish And European Pleas For Compromise
Facing the inevitable consequences of its inability – or unwillingness – to negotiate a fair Brexit deal with Brussels andContinue Reading
Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Count Of Cross-Border Roads Is Underway
If the United Kingdom is serious about not wanting to see the return of a “hard border” or militarised frontierContinue Reading
DUP Claims Of Bomb Attack On Ex-PSNI Officer Prove False
The United Kingdom’s determination to end its membership of the European Union has placed a large question mark over theContinue Reading
Unseen Women: Stories from Armagh Gaol
In 2006-07, the Prisons’ Memory Archive recorded former political prisoners, staff, teachers, chaplains and lawyers as they walked around theContinue Reading
Russian Mercenaries Suffer Losses In Syria, As US And Russia Clashes
The latest reports of Russian casualties in the Syrian war serve to underline the international character of the conflict. ItContinue Reading
The Vietnam War And The War On Terror
An article for the current affairs website TomDispatch by Danny Sjursen, a serving officer in the United States Armed Forces andContinue Reading
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