I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

Louis MacNeice

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Part of the Union

Part of the Union

Brian Sheehan

Fighting for decent salaries and conditions for low-paid civil servants

Too much too soon

Too much too soon

John Wilson Foster

The unconsidered perils of the nationalist rush to Irish unity

Getting There

Getting There

Andy Pollak

Blueprints for the path to a successful referendum and a united Ireland

Usuns, Themuns, Others

Usuns, Themuns, Others

Paul Nolan

The complex lessons of the Northern Ireland population census

A Model for Everything

A Model for Everything

Sean Byrne

Maths, microeconomics and ‘losing sight of the bigger picture’

Hearts and Minds

Hearts and Minds

Enda O’Doherty

The stubborn obstacles that stand in the way of a unitary state in Ireland

Hoping for the Best

Hoping for the Best

Emmet O’Connor

An optimist examines the prospects of achieving Irish unification

What Larks

What Larks

Patricia Craig

Bridget Rose Dugdale, an English debutante on Irish active service

‘I Gave Them a Sword’

‘I Gave Them a Sword’

Kevin Stevens

The Watergate affair and the cover-up that brought down Richard Nixon

England and St George

England and St George

Maurice Walsh

The Brexit sensibility: between nostalgia and nationalism

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