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One hundred years ago, in October 1924, the third and final representative to the Irish Boundary Commission, Joseph R Fisher, its Northern Ireland...
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...
Referring to how elements of Gaelic culture were being eroded in Northern Ireland at its birth, Edward Millington Stephens, secretary of the Irish...
Speaking in Wales 100 years ago this month, in September 1924, the former British prime minister David Lloyd George warned that the “Irish banshee...
In the autumn of 1925, Irish Free State president of the Executive Council, WT Cosgrave, directed government departments to produce memoranda...
Every summer when parliaments recess, people complain about the lengthy holidays politicians get, when, in reality, most politicians who want to be...
Many people claim politics and sport should never mix, while sportspeople regularly tie themselves in knots saying they have nothing to do with...
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...
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...
In a desperate bid to stall the haemorrhaging of seats the Conservative Party is likely to face next week, British prime minister Rishi Sunak...
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...
IT is over a month since the co-chairpersons of the expert advisory panel of the British government’s “independent public history” project, Lord...
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...