May 13, 2021 | Latest
I stood in front of the gates to his long driveway. The £5m house, inside a two-acre walled garden, was huge for a one-parent family (with no family), but I smirked with satisfaction at the fact that the council had forgotten to take down the sign.* When I was growing...
May 9, 2021 | Latest
Andrée Murphy reviews the recently published memoir, Where Grieving Begins, by former IRA Volunteer Pat Magee, with a foreword by Jo Berry whose father was killed in the Brighton Bombing. It is published by Pluto Press. Pat was sentenced to multiple terms of life...
May 2, 2021 | Features
This is my long review of Partition – How and Why Ireland was Divided by Ivan Gibbons which appeared in the Irish Examiner, May 1, 2021. ITS one hundredth birthday falls on May 3, yet no unionist or revisionist historian has ever written a book titled, The...
Apr 23, 2021 | Latest
24 April is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Some years ago I wrote about one consequence of those mass killings for some of its perpetrators in my book, Rebel Columns. Here it is republished for the anniversary. A STORY OF REVENGE ‘They took everyone away… They...
Jan 31, 2021 | Features
There have been several lucrative spin-offs for some of those behind the debacle that is Boston College’s Belfast Project, which included former IRA Volunteers being encouraged to incriminate themselves and old comrades on the understanding that their statements...