Tag: Ireland
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Fifty Years On: The Troubles And The Struggle For Change In Northern Ireland | The Herald | August 2019
Malachi O’Doherty remembers where he was the night the guns came out in Belfast. “I had turned the corner on to the Falls when I heard the first string of blurts from a machine gun,” he writes in his timely and absorbing new book, Fifty Years On: The Troubles And The Struggle For Change In […]
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Sturgeon At The Seanad | Bella Caledonia | November 2016
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Profile – Brendan J. Byrne: “The reality of Bobby Sands has been lost in the myth” | Sunday Mail | August 2016
“Drama at the absolute rawest edge.” That’s how Irish writer Fintan O’Toole characterises the 1981 IRA hunger strikes in director Brendan J. Byrne’s powerful new documentary 66 Days.
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In Ireland | Sunday Mail | August 2015
Despite the steady summer downpour, busloads of tourists file into the car-park at Drumcliffe churchyard in County Sligo on the west coast of Ireland. Like me, they’ve come to see the final resting place of William Butler Yeats, the man widely regarded as Ireland’s greatest poet.
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Scottish Independence: The View From Belfast | The Scotsman | February 2013
The explosion of loyalist anger sparked by the decision to remove the Union Jack from the top of Belfast City Hall a few weeks ago – and the street protests, riots and police clashes that followed – has served as an abrupt reminder of how deeply unsettled the political situation in Northern Ireland remains. Despite the power-sharing […]
Jamie Maxwell 