Unionist And European In A Time Of Brexit
“Sure hasn’t it always been that way” A couple of years back, in a throwaway comment to a close friend,Continue Reading
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“Sure hasn’t it always been that way” A couple of years back, in a throwaway comment to a close friend,Continue Reading
The Nation has published a review of Zohra Drif’s acclaimed autobiography, Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a WomanContinue Reading
The news that the Reverend Ian Paisley, the founder of the hardline Democratic Unionist Party and several associated paramilitary groupings,Continue Reading
One of the more repugnant individuals employed in the editorial team of the Donald Trump fanzine, Breitbart News, is the reporter Katie McHugh.Continue Reading
Emboldened by the unexpected – if much feared – victory of Donald Trump in the United States’ presidential election the inhabitantsContinue Reading
While the debate continues in Britain over the motives of murderer Thomas Mair, the killer of Labour MP Jo Cox, hisContinue Reading
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
Ulster Resistance, the paramilitary wing of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party during the 1980s, is making the headlines once again following theContinue Reading
I’ve used the platform presented by An Sionnach Fionn to discuss the Kincora Boys Home scandal on many occasions in theContinue Reading
In 1981 the “reverend” Ian Paisley MP MEP, founder and chief of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, the DemocraticContinue Reading
There is an Irish tradition that if you have nothing good to say of the dead then say nothing. ThatContinue Reading
The pretence that the media establishment in Ireland is anything other than anti-Republican in terms of its collective political ideologyContinue Reading
In a series of interviews recorded for television broadcast the reverend Ian Paisley, the former leader of the DUP andContinue Reading
The Seeds Of The Northern War We’ve seen a lot of outraged (and outrageous) speeches in recent days from politiciansContinue Reading
One of the more famous descriptions to have emerged in the last thirty years for the former ANC leader andContinue Reading