Part of a series of articles exploring the role of the left in the great political upheaval in Northern Ireland in 1968-69, written in response to John McAnulty’s polemic ( Solidarity 717) In January ...

Wrapping up a series of articles on the great political upheaval in Northern Ireland in 1968-69. This instalment is about Britain putting troops onto the streets on 14 August 1969. On 12 August 1969 ...

You have a lot going on, so we’ll forgive you for asking, “When is Mother’s Day 2025?” once or twice this month. (Oh, fine, it might’ve been three times, but you have a lot going on.) Don’t panic—it ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has cautioned the Government over cuts to the Civil Service and hit out at the insulting language being used. Making her maiden speech in ...

IrishCentral contributor Joseph Connell examines the life of a hero of Irish Republicanism, Máire Comerford, the fearless ...

Sue Gray has suggested No 10 should be “careful” about civil service cuts and derogatory language about the work of Whitehall. Delivering her maiden speech in the House of Lords, Baroness Gray called ...

For Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Eunan O’Halpin, his fondness for reading print newspapers mirrors his approach to scholarly work, delving into bureaucratic archives of diplomatic, ...

A full-scale transatlantic trade war could wreak havoc on the Irish economy, costing billions in euro and prompting some US multinationals to move operations out of the country, a report published ...

South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top United Nations official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday. Calling the situation unfolding in the country “dire ...

The death of John Hemingway, the last of The Few who fought in the Battle of Britain, has brought a reminder of the southern Irish who fought in the second World War, but especially those from the ...