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
Tag: The Troubles
How Brexit Is Killing Britain’s Rump Colony In Ireland
The Irish-born author and activist Richard Seymour, who hails from a unionist background in County Antrim, has written an excoriatingContinue Reading
British Army Blowing Up A Cross-Border Bridge. A Brexit Warning
From an avowedly partisan television news report broadcast to UK viewers in September 1975*, a video clip of soldiers andContinue Reading
Boris Johnson’s Father On A Hard Border: The Irish Shoot Each Other, That Is Something They Do
Stanley Johnson, the right-wing political commentator and father of Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for Foreign andContinue Reading
Will The DUP Get Further Protection For British Army Killers?
The news that the Democratic Unionist Party may have secured a major concession from the Conservative Party government in theContinue Reading
Video: Brexit, A Cry From The Irish Border
The Irish actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union and theContinue Reading
Brexit Britain’s “Quiet Retreat” From The Good Friday Agreement Peace Process
The BrexitLawNI group – a joint-research project between Queen’s University Belfast, the Ulster University and the Committee on the Administration ofContinue Reading
UK Minister Bradley: I Didn’t Understand That Nationalists Don’t Vote For Unionists
Among the ministerial offices of the United Kingdom, the position of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is generally viewedContinue Reading
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg: We Can Reimpose A Border “Just Like During The Troubles”
Brexit fanaticism in full effect as the Conservative Party politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the main leaders of the anti-European campaignContinue Reading
Nigel Farage’s IRA And EU Conspiracy Theory Is The Real Threat To Peace
As I asked in a previous article, is there any depth to which the British supporters of Brexit will notContinue Reading
A Hard Brexit UK Will Abandon Responsibility For Cross-Border Trade In Ireland
I suspect that most readers will be less than surprised by yesterday’s news that the inept Conservative Party government inContinue Reading
The Legacy Of The RUC
The solidly pro-union newspaper, The News Letter, has launched an editorial campaign to revise the contested history of the Irish-BritishContinue Reading
British Legislation Threatens Imposition Of A Stop-And-Search Zone Along The UK Border In Ireland
So much for the repeated claims by Theresa May’s Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom that her nation remainsContinue 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
Violence In Derry And Belfast Reminds Us That The Troubles Are Far From Over
If the last several days of small-scale rioting in Derry has proved anything, it is the ability of violence –Continue Reading
British Government In The North Of Ireland “Riddled” With IRA Agents
The news that Drew Harris, the Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), has been selectedContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn Visits Belfast, The British Press Revives The Troubles
The hysterical reaction by a significant section of the news media in the United Kingdom to the forthcoming visit byContinue Reading
The British Labour MP Kate Hoey Is Still Fighting The Troubles
The motivations behind the majority pro-leave result in the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum are complex, though there is aContinue 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
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