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Orange Parade Gets the Go-Ahead
Why has this fiasco erupted in our faces? Over twenty years since the last violence…
Irish Americans Want a United Ireland
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” President Trump’s comment that he…
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…
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Ireland’s Groovy Arts Minister
Colin Lacey talks to Michael D. Higgins (recently dubbed by British Vogue as the world’s grooviest arts minister) about the renaissance of the Irish film industry. The Crying Game: My […]
Tim Walz of the Tomhaggard Doyles
How A Solitary Tombstone in Wisconsin Solved the Mystery of His Irish Origins As a professional genealogist of half-Irish heritage, I’ve long embraced the opportunity to underscore the ties between […]
Campaign for Justice 50 Years On
Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years later. Exactly 50 years ago, on Saturday night October 5, 1974, IRA bombs exploded in […]
A People’s President
Mary McAleese was elected president of Ireland in October of 1997. It was an astonishing outcome. Just a few months previously, the 46-year-old law professor at Queens University in Belfast […]
Mo’s Mission
Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam (1949-2005), was a British Labour Party politician who served as Northern Ireland Secretary from 1997-2001. She helped bring about the Good Friday Agreement, signed April 10 1998. […]
The Good Friday Agreement and Beyond
“I was worried about my cousins getting killed,” Kevin Sullivan, Project Director for the Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement said. “My mother was born in Sixmilecross, […]