“The madams [who ran the brothels] hadn’t feared the British state, but by 1925 holy Catholic Ireland was coming about. They knew the writing was on the wall. They had to reconcile with that.

The six counties of Northern Ireland ... old Derry’s walls. As the old enmities sprang to life, Protestants went to the polls, united for the King. When it was over, a Catholic from Deny stood ...

Between 1876 and 1883 around 83 per cent of Irish immigrants came from the North of Ireland - around 25 per cent of these were Protestant. Both Catholics and Protestants had very different ...