Irish History

Before the Flood

A new memoir recalls an artistic and political controversy which rocked Northern Ireland more than fifty years ago, at a time when its labour traditions…

World History

Passing It On

The historian and adult education champion RH Tawney, whose personal and work life were often stormy, may be seen to represent through his career the…

World History

Let’s Forget

A new book seems to favour the consigning of savage episodes in Spain’s twentieth century to oblivion, but there is always a good case to…

Irish History

A Crowded Stage, an Empty Room

Contrary to popular opinion, there has in fact been a working class Protestant contribution to culture in Northern Ireland. What is more problematic is a…

Irish Politics

Getting Beyond No

There are stirrings in Ulster Loyalist groupings which may, if they mature, disprove the old cliché that Northern Protestants have no culture other than the…