A twelve year old Dublin boy has asked Queen Elizabeth to return Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland. This is the kind of blunt thinking,…
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General John Maxwell On Monday May 1 1916 Dublin is at peace, but it is a ruin of life and property. Grown men stand in…
Countess Markievicz By Sunday the rebels of the GPO and Four Courts are in British hands. The others in the five garrisons on the south side…
I’ve felt green of late. Not a political conversion, rather, the green of envy. Jealous of the energy, vision and action of the Irish unity lobby.…
How can there be a carnival on a battlefield? That’s what Dublin was for the ordinary people of the city during the Easter week of 1916.…
There’s no rural-urban split, no conservative Ireland versus liberal Ireland, said Una Mullally and Fintan O’Toole, just modern, democratic Ireland. Ireland’s equal marriage referendum rolled in…
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir is striking on many levels. Inimitable for his energy and ubiquity, online and offline. His personality for a politician is something off-norm. His…
The Arbour Hill memorial mass and oration is a signal event in the Fianna Fáil calendar, marking the 1916 Rising. Arbour Hill is a prison and…
Despite the thousands and thousands of words written and spoken about the arrest of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams no one asked the critical…
The pomp and circumstance of the Irish Presidential visit to the United Kingdom has paled into memory. The carefully choreographed receptions, visits and content…
I was reflecting on the stalled Haass proposals and the stark warning he issued during evidence to the US Congressional subcommittee of foreign relations.…
Eamonn Mallie probes the dangers of unpoliced history in Northern Ireland