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How the ‘third man’ on the Boundary Commission 100 years ago helped secure the border for unionism

One hundred years ago, in October 1924, the third and final representative to the Irish Boundary Commission, Joseph R Fisher, its Northern Ireland...

30.10.2024 10

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Fake news and the battle over the Irish border

The concept of fake news is not new. It did not start spewing from a golden toilet in Manhattan, although the capacity of Donald Trump to lie almost...

17.10.2024 10

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What history tells us about how the Irish language has been treated in the north of Ireland

Referring to how elements of Gaelic culture were being eroded in Northern Ireland at its birth, Edward Millington Stephens, secretary of the Irish...

02.10.2024 30

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‘The Irish banshee is once again in our midst’

Speaking in Wales 100 years ago this month, in September 1924, the former British prime minister David Lloyd George warned that the “Irish banshee...

19.09.2024 20

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Lessons on preparing for constitutional change

In the autumn of 1925, Irish Free State president of the Executive Council, WT Cosgrave, directed government departments to produce memoranda...

04.09.2024 20

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Think Stormont has a long summer break? Not compared to 1921

Every summer when parliaments recess, people complain about the lengthy holidays politicians get, when, in reality, most politicians who want to be...

21.08.2024 10

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Politics and sport will always be intertwined

Many people claim politics and sport should never mix, while sportspeople regularly tie themselves in knots saying they have nothing to do with...

08.08.2024 10

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From Paris 1924 to 2024: 100 Years of Ireland at the Olympic Games

This Friday, an opening ceremony will herald the beginning of the Olympic Games in Paris, the third time the city has hosted the event after doing so...

24.07.2024 10

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Changing electoral map shows need for border poll criteria

For the first time in Northern Ireland’s history, a nationalist party has won the most seats in a Westminster election. By Sinn Féin retaining its...

10.07.2024 10

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Sunak’s national service plan does north another disservice

In a desperate bid to stall the haemorrhaging of seats the Conservative Party is likely to face next week, British prime minister Rishi Sunak...

27.06.2024 10

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Will the British Labour Party abandon Ireland again?

The British Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer is almost certainly going to prevail in the UK general election on July 4. Given the almost daily...

12.06.2024 20

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Troubles history project has failed before it has started

IT is over a month since the co-chairpersons of the expert advisory panel of the British government’s “independent public history” project, Lord...

29.05.2024 40

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No historian should have anything to do with Britain’s ‘independent history’ of the Troubles

From today, May 1, under the Northern Ireland (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, inquests into deaths resulting directly from the Troubles must...

01.05.2024 10

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Could northern nationalists be betrayed again by Dublin for money?

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...

17.04.2024 10

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Can the GAA and unionism reconcile or will they remain prisoners of history?

During the 100-plus years of partition, for Catholics and nationalists, the GAA remained a steadfast champion of their identity and did much to...

04.04.2024 20

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Let’s be clear on criteria for calling border poll

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...

20.03.2024 10

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From 1974 to 2024 – plus ça change?

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...

06.03.2024 30

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The perennial problem of attracting Catholics to the north’s police

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,...

21.02.2024 20

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History demonstrates the dangers of one-sided deals

The Government of Ireland Act 1920, which was responsible for partitioning this island, was introduced by the British government to solve the...

07.02.2024 10

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Remembering ‘Wee Joe’ Devlin 90 years on

Ninety years ago, on January 18 1934, leading journalist, businessman and nationalist politician Joseph “Wee Joe” Devlin died at the age of 62....

24.01.2024 8

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How the border in Ireland was drawn

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...

10.01.2024 10

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The partition of lreland – and of Irish history

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...

28.12.2023 10

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'I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland’

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...

14.12.2023 9

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