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.
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The stubborn obstacles that stand in the way of a unitary state in Ireland
An optimist examines the prospects of achieving Irish unification
Bridget Rose Dugdale, an English debutante on Irish active service
The Watergate affair and the cover-up that brought down Richard Nixon
The Brexit sensibility: between nostalgia and nationalism
Reflections on media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Can Starmer take patriotism from the Tories and give it real social content?
Is the ‘careful’ leadership of Sir Keir Starmer going to destroy Labour?
The end of containment, the expansion of NATO and the new threat
The territory from the Jordan to the sea is already a single binational state.