Football Crazy

Getting There

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

Under Southern Skies

Ireland’s links with Argentina, from the prosperous to the oppressed

Wrongfooted by History

An up-close look at Northern Ireland’s Protestant community

Didn’t They Do Well?

Irish settlers in Argentina saw no contradiction between leaving a country wracked by land conflict and occupying land in the one to which they’d moved…

Before The Fall

In 1945 a new housing authority in Northern Ireland set itself the target of building 30,000 houses over ten years, houses that would be allocated…

Backs to the Wall

The widely held view of the Northern Protestant working class is that it is reactionary, prone to violence and possesses little that could be called…

The Pity of War

A study of war across the ages argues that our propensity to engage in such conflicts is not genetically determined but a matter of culture…

A Book of Two Halves

A new history of sport in Ireland impresses with its meticulous research and its account of the historical origins and the momentous developments of the…

Tell It Like It Is

During the years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the media, and particularly BBC television, came under pressure to assist the state’s war against armed…

Wild Geese and Clerical Bohemians

Prague’s Franciscan College, set up in the 1630s to send missionary priests back to Ireland, flourished through its contacts with an influential expatriate community of…

The Orangeman who loved Ireland

The prolific singer, actor, traveller, film-maker and writer Richard Hayward, who died in 1964, was in many ways a pre-partition figure, the kind of Irishman…

Captain Mighthavebeen

The mid-1960s saw a relaxation of old certainties among both communities in Northern Ireland. The unionist leader Terence O’Neill was conscious that it was necessary…