May 5, 2021

The IRA’s hunger for martyrs Modern Ireland was defined by the defiance and death of Bobby Sands

Jenny McCartney

03.05

Northern Ireland has little hope left It's becoming increasingly obvious that Westminster couldn't care less

Carlo Gebler

26.06

Pity the prisoners who remain locked up In lockdown we've learned that restricting people's freedoms leaves them unmoored from life

Carlo Gebler

11.02

Sinn Féin’s triumph is a victory of forgetting The exultant party doesn't want to disown its IRA past; it wants to selectively celebrate it

Jenny McCartney

23.10

Don’t let Brexit become the next Troubles Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s taught me that tribal loyalties have a way of turning nasty

Jenny McCartney

19.12

Books that unveil the beauty in life’s bleakness

Jenny McCartney