History Archive
The British Broadcast Ban, The Media and the Conflict in Northern Ireland
On October 19, 1988 the British Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, imposed unprecedented peace time restrictions…
Looking Back at the Hunger Strike
He has chosen death: Refusing to eat or drink, that he may bring Disgrace upon…
Deadly Tales from County Tyrone
In 1970, at the age of 22, Bernadette ‘Devlin’ McAliskey was elected to represent the…
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Blazes Boylan
In the last issue we reported on the 26-year-old Irish American woman from Long Island, Annie McCarrick, who had mysteriously disappeared from her Dublin home on March 26. Although her […]
Larry O’Brien: A Perennial NBA Champion
When someone mentions the NBA Finals, you might think of Jordan or Kobe slashing their way to the rim. Or, more recently, the video game-like exploits of three-point assassin Steph […]
A Mission Remembered
A sentimental nineteenth century novel of virtue rewarded tells the story of an Irish immigrant girl who came to New York in the 1870’s. Subtitled “A Tale Founded on Fact,” […]
(Un)lucky Strike
The Comstock Lode provided over half the silver ever mined in the United States but the Irishmen who discovered it weren’t quite as lucky as one might think. By Jim […]
The Roads to Nowhere
With the implementation of the Single European Market at the end of 1992 that “opened up all European frontiers to free movement and trade” no one in the border counties […]
Northern Ireland, Culture & Identity
Here, then, follow my own observations of the lines by which the community in Northern Ireland is divided….. The first and most important line of division separates national identities. The […]