Jan 2, 2023 | Features
Guest writer Roy Greenslade reviews Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins. -oo0oo- In 1970, a popular British newspaper published a story that rightly deserved to be called sensational. The People reported that British soldiers had...
Sep 23, 2022 | Features
Sam Thompson writes and occasionally lectures on history. A former RUC officer, he wrote his first novel, Nights in Armour, under a nom de plume, which I reviewed back in 2017. An updated version of the novel was published by Mercier Press in 2019. Sam now describes...
Jul 24, 2022 | Features
A report from a Basque comrade on protests around the continued imprisonment, after thirty years, of three political prisoners. The north of the Basque Country, or the so called ‘French part’, came to a standstill yesterday as a series of demonstrations took place to...
Jul 5, 2022 | Features
Ciarán Quinn, Sinn Féin’s Representative for North America, writes about the issue of consent to constitutional change and how unionists are trying to create a precedent for blocking change and turning its meaning on its head – A couple of weeks ago I had an...
Jun 28, 2022 | Features
My review of Professor Brendan Kelly’s book, In Search of Madness – A Psychiatrist’s Travels Through the History of Mental Illness, was published in the Weekend Section of last Saturday’s Irish Examiner. Here it is: ‘At the age of 20, Helen presented to...
Jun 20, 2022 | Features
My friend Glenn Bradley thought he would refresh with a little Father’s Day kayaking before the arrival of the family. But then things took a sinister turn… My wife Jo and I awoke early both enthused with a good night’s sleep. The sea air at our holiday...
