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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Mozart’s Irish Tenor
Isabelle Emerson writes on the fascinating life of Irish tenor Michael Kelly. Michael Kelly’s career started early: at the age of three he was served up on the table with […]
The State of the Irish Lobby
Will the political events of November effect a change in the American role in the Northern Ireland peace process? The mid-term election in the United States produced a Republican landslide, […]
Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will […]
Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History
The great famine, the legacy of Wolfe Tone and the nature of the 1798 rebellion, Patrick Pearse’s psychological stability, and whether the gallant fight for freedom provides a thematic unity […]
The Irish in New Orleans
They built the roads and the canals, and died in their thousands from yellow fever. They competed with slaves to load cotton on the ships bound for Liverpool. Ships that […]
What Price Peace?
As British Prime Minister John Major and Taoiseach Albert Reynolds announced their historic “Joint Declaration for Peace” in Northern Ireland on December 15, the vital question was whether the new […]