Henry Patterson
Articles by Henry Patterson
2022
2021
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Labour Titan
Ernest Bevin never knew who his father was and was orphaned aged eight. He started work as a farm labourer at eleven and later became…
2020
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Defending the Union
The social democratisation of the Northern Irish state after 1945 transformed the life chances of working class children both Catholic and Protestant, yet the ruling…
2019
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Irish Politics
The Limits of Empathy
A historian specialising in political violence argues that understanding terrorism requires empathetic analysis. But scepticism over the claims of the creators of victims to be…
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Irish History
Big and Little Lies
A new book argues that those who criticise the Good Friday Agreement for not creating a framework for dealing with the past or for not…