Leading academics explore the causes and consequences of the Partition of Ireland in a series of authored talks, developed by Queen’s University Belfast with support from the BBC. A series of talks on ...

Reid – professor of African history at the University of Oxford – has made this argument before, but The African Revolution ...

On the evening of 7 December 1922 the prime minister of Northern Ireland, James Craig, set sail from Belfast to deliver his parliament’s decision, made only that afternoon, to opt out of the newly ...

The Government’s prioritisation of peaceful co-existence echoes the position adopted by de Valera in 1932 when he became ...

Year after year, the internet awaits for the first breath of autumn air to declare the beginning of sweater weather. With the quick-paced nature of […] ...

He was briefly a Senator (1933-6) and then he retired from politics. His activities and interests thereafter focused on the ...

A reader points to the Good Friday Agreement as inspiration for Ireland to protect its neutrality and help build ...

to the bloody violence of the British state in Northern Ireland and its ongoing partition of Ulster. The history and the memory of those experiences have long made the Irish — both in Ireland ...

All of which reinforces Martin McGuinness’s point, namely what’s the point of the NIO and proconsul? Now don’t say the ...

The words crafted by Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury—"Amar Bhaiyer Rokte Rangano Ekushey February" (My brothers’ blood dyes the ...

The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...