republicanism
Loyalist and Republican attitudes to education explored in new report from Stranmillis and St Mary's
LOYALISTS feel more disconnected and abandoned by the education system, churches and political leaders, a new study has found.
Hello Mary Lou, goodbye calls for unity referendum
OCCASIONALLY politicians when putting a policy reversal on the record, try to do so when it might not attract much attention. Mary Lou McDonald’s recent “apology” for the death of Lord Mountbatten, seems a case in point.
Let’s call on the ‘can-do’ spirit of 1998 to end political incompetence
AS one of the handful of Ulster Unionist Party negotiators responsible for the 1998 Belfast Agreement, I share in the general public’s sense of disappointment and feel not a little anger over the chronic failure of the two main parties to work and behave responsibly.
Opposite extremists always appear to be on the same side of history
IN his recent statement, Lord Morrow, chairman of the DUP, claimed that compared to the 1974 Workers Council Strike and the 1985 loyalist protests against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the recent unionist protests were of “equal seriousness”. He went on to claim that the authorities have continued to “show total and absolute capitulation to the demands of militant republicanism”.
Good Friday Agreement denies right of self-determination
IN the letters column, Friday April 9, Paul Laughlin, Doire, argued that a border poll held under the Good Friday Agreement would constitute an exercise in self-determination by the people of Ireland. In this, however, he is wrong.
Position of united Ireland advocates misrepresented by commentator
WITH the widening of the debate on Irish unity and the question of a referendum as provided for in the Good Friday Agreement, there will be discussion on definitions of Irishness and Britishness.
A republican icon? Yes, but 'poor little Kevin Barry'? Definitely not, says historian Eunan O'Halpin
KEVIN Barry (1902-1920) has become synonymous with Irish republican sacrifice.
Marisa McGlinchey on the business of writing her acclaimed study of radical republicanism
WHEN Marisa McGlinchey was launching her academic book Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism in Dublin last year, leading historian Eunan O'Halpin told those in attendance that her challenge now was to "top it".
Media expert Paddy Hoey says loyalists are 'bounded by Britishness'
The author of a book examining the role republican media activism over the past 20 years tells Political Correspondent John Manley how the broader political discourse would benefit greatly from confronting some uncomfortable truths.