Northern Ireland Is As British As Finchley? Not Even Remotely
When the United Kingdom formally partitioned Ireland in May 1921, six loyalist or secessionist counties in the north-east of the islandContinue Reading
Tag: Margaret Thatcher
No Surrender! Boris Johnson On Dublin, London And Partition
On the 15th of November 1985 at Hillsborough Castle, south-west of Belfast, the government of the United Kingdom signed an internationalContinue Reading
The DUP’s Brexit Plan? Harden The Border, Save The Union
The Irish-born journalist and author Walter Ellis is probably best known in this country for his 2006 autobiography, The BeginningContinue Reading
The British Security Service, MI5, Planned Terrorist Assassination Of Fianna Fáil Leader, Charles Haughey
The last few days has seen the publication of another tranche of heretofore secret government documents under the National ArchivesContinue Reading
With North Korea, Is Donald Trump Hoping For A Falkland Islands’ Solution To His Domestic Woes?
In March of 1982 the Ipsos MORI poll rating for Margaret Thatcher, the then prime minister of the United Kingdom,Continue Reading
Thirty Years Of Secret Talks And Negotiations Between Britain And The IRA
With the United Kingdom’s right-wing press whipping itself up into a frenzy over the alleged sympathy of Labour Party leaderContinue Reading
Joint Authority Or Sovereignty Over The North, A Good Friday Agreement Mark II?
There has been a lot of speculation in recent weeks about the possibility of establishing joint-authority or sovereignty between IrelandContinue Reading
From Margaret Thatcher And The Valiant UVF, To WebOps And Palestinian Salad
By the late 1960s over four decades had passed since the United Kingdom had given concerted attention to the internal affairs ofContinue Reading
Kincora, Whitewashing The Secret History Of Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
With informed observers, including lawyers, journalists and politicians, already predicting a whitewash there seems little hope that Britain is ready to faceContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
Nelson Mandela – An Irish Republican By Another Name
After a long period of ill-health Nelson Mandela, former leader of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe and PresidentContinue Reading
Big Think: The Repartition Of Ireland
Big Think is one of my favourite websites dedicated to, well, big thinking. It deals with all sorts of ideasContinue Reading
Margaret Thatcher And The “Valiant” UVF
Throughout the late 20th century and into the early 21st century the Ulster Volunteer Force or UVF was one of the largestContinue Reading
Margaret Thatcher And The Irish
The would-be “Hammer of the Gael”, Margaret Hilda Thatcher, has been laid to rest and still the revelations about her true natureContinue Reading
Margaret Thatcher – She Came, She Saw, She Failed
As a citizen of Ireland there is only one Margaret Thatcher that I remember. From the archives of the GuardianContinue Reading
