The Odd Couple
A new study of the intense rivalry between Charlie Haughey and Garret FitzGerald suggests it may have ended up being a force for good for the country as a whole.
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A Long Way to Peace
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Volume XIV, 1969-1973, eds Michael Kennedy, Eunan O’Halpin, Kate O’Malley, Bernadette Whelan, Kevin O’Sullivan, Jennifer Redmond, John Gibney and Melissa Baird, Royal Irish Academy, 1,122 pp, €50, ISBN: 978-1802050219 In one way it was the best of times: the last document in this fourteenth volume of Documents on Irish Foreign…
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Educating Margaret
How Margaret Thatcher was persuaded to sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement
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Belonging
The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change
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One More to Go
Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics
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Running out of Road
Protestant population decline and the political short-sightedness of unionism
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Who’s for a U-turn?
Why unionists might be better off thinking, and doing, the unthinkable
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The Boys of the Blue Brigade
The burning of churches and wholesale murder of priests and nuns during the Spanish Civil War provoked an expedition of Irish volunteers, led by the Blueshirt Eoin O’Duffy. Their intervention was to fizzle out in drunkenness, indiscipline and some not…
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Not Gone Away
While many commentators would argue that Sinn Féin should be awarded the prize for actually advancing traditional republican objectives over recent decades, the ‘purists’ or ‘dissidents’ who call them traitors are still with us. And will be for some time…
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Ireland Out of England?
It has been suggested that a second New Ireland Forum should be convened to help dispel unionist fears of the inevitable united Ireland. Perhaps we should instead explore the intimate mutual relations between Ireland and Britain, something of a sore…
