Politics Archive
Mo’s Mission
Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam (1949-2005), was a British Labour Party politician who served as Northern Ireland…
The Good Friday Agreement and Beyond
“I was worried about my cousins getting killed,” Kevin Sullivan, Project Director for the Ad…
Good Friday Agreement 25 Years Later
Queens University, Belfast Conference
Senator George Mitchell turned out to be the star of the Agreement 25 conference held…
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Police Seize de Valera’s Love Letters
The Gardai (Irish police) have seized 18 letters written by Eamonn de Valera to his wife, Sinead, between 1912 and 1920. Some of the letters were written while he was […]
The Last Hurrah
President Bill Clinton’s third, unprecedented and final visit to Ireland as President had all the feelings of a homecoming. And why not? No other American President has devoted as much […]
Deportation Proceedings Dropped
The Department of Justice announced in the beginning of December that it would stop all deportation proceedings against six men with past connections to the IRA. The decision is the […]
Women in Northern Ireland Politics
In war-torn Northern Ireland, for women to fight for equal rights would have been seen as a betrayal to the Nationalist or Unionist cause, Anne Cadwallader examines the position of […]
The Other Kennedy
For the last 40 years, Americans have been fixated on the trials, tribulations and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Yet as the nation has kept its eyes focused on the […]
The Last Word
The last time it happened…The Irish were to blame. ℘℘℘ The election results are in. The presidential candidate of the incumbent Democratic party has won the popular vote but lost […]