James Craig’s ‘border election’ 100 years ago and how nationalists came to terms with the new northern state
For nationalists in Belfast and east Ulster, there had been much debate since 1921 about whether (or not) to accept the ...
The Bureau by Eoin McNamee: If you’re interested in what the Border truly means, read this exceptional novel
A man finds his stepdaughter in her bedroom upstairs. She is crouched on the floor, her lover lying in bed, both shot. An ...
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Book review: A salacious tale of murder on the border of fact and fiction
Author Eoin McNamee says there has always been blood on the floor in his books but 'this time some of the blood is mine' ...
The Next One is for You by Ali Watkins: Shining a light on Noraid
Ali Watkins’s book looks closely at Conlon and Noraid in Philadelphia during the early 1970s. That city was an important ...
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‘Hard Neighbors’ Review: Young America’s Scotch-Irish Border Clans
Most were descendants of Presbyterian Scots whom the Royal government had relocated from the Scottish borders across the Irish Sea to Ulster in the early 17th century to tame the “wild ...