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From today, May 1, under the Northern Ireland (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, inquests into deaths resulting directly from the Troubles must...
For northern nationalists, up to the present day, one of the most galling episodes in modern Irish history was their abandonment by the Irish Free...
During the 100-plus years of partition, for Catholics and nationalists, the GAA remained a steadfast champion of their identity and did much to...
At the heart of much of the problems around Article 12 of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, which provided for a Boundary Commission to determine the...
In editing On This Day for The Irish News, I browse editions of the newspaper from 50 and 100 years ago. It is striking the number of headlines from...
The decision of First Minister Michelle O’Neill to use PSNI bodyguards and to be the first Sinn Féin public representative, along with Gerry Kelly,...
The Government of Ireland Act 1920, which was responsible for partitioning this island, was introduced by the British government to solve the...
Ninety years ago, on January 18 1934, leading journalist, businessman and nationalist politician Joseph “Wee Joe” Devlin died at the age of 62....
It was revealed publicly for the first time recently, during the release of state papers, that a discussion paper was drawn up by civil servants in...
The Irish state’s decade-plus-long programme commemorating the Irish revolutionary years has come to an end, the finishing point to the decade being...
ON December 14 1921, just days after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Lord Edward Carson of Duncairn gave his maiden speech to the House of...
FORMER DUP leader Peter Robinson intervened last week on the party's continued boycott of Stormont, criticising its strategic approach.
FORMER DUP leader Peter Robinson intervened last week on the party's continued boycott of Stormont, criticising its strategic approach.
THE Ulster unionist opposition to home rule which ultimately led to the partition of Ireland was based not just on religious differences and concerns...
THE Ulster unionist opposition to home rule which ultimately led to the partition of Ireland was based not just on religious differences and concerns...
IT is almost forgotten that the DUP boycotted the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) in 2021 before it withdrew from Stormont in February 2022,...
IT is almost forgotten that the DUP boycotted the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) in 2021 before it withdrew from Stormont in February 2022,...
IN the years of Ireland’s partition, the Anglo-Irish War of Independence and subsequent civil war, Irish nationalism was riven with division and...
Being under siege, or at least the perception of being under siege, has been the default position of Ulster unionism for some time.
Being under siege, or at least the perception of being under siege, has been the default position of Ulster unionism for some time.