Tag: Northern Ireland

Total Results: 63


A British soldier aims his rifle during a patrol along the Irish border. (Photo by Alex Bowie/Getty Images)
04/23/2021 - 1:10am

How we let the IRA walk free Johnny Mercer is right — the Government has failed British veterans

Douglas Murray

Friday, April 9

09.04

Ulster’s lost boys turn violent Lockdown and Brexit have drawn a new generation into an old conflict

Jenny McCartney

Wednesday, December 23

23.12

Why the Irish border still troubles Britain A century ago Ireland was partitioned between South and North. The legacy still haunts both islands

Charles Townshend

Friday, December 4

04.12

Will anyone ever say ‘sorry’ in Northern Ireland? Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries are still unable to acknowledge the terrible wrongs they did

Jenny McCartney

Tuesday, September 15

15.09

Enoch Powell, visionary As a new book notes, many of his most troubling predictions have indeed come to pass

Aris Roussinos

Friday, June 26

26.06

Pity the prisoners who remain locked up In lockdown we've learned that restricting people's freedoms leaves them unmoored from life

Carlo Gebler

Wednesday, February 26

26.02

Why Boris has his eye on a Union-boosting bridge Wouldn't the UK be better preserved by keeping Scotland and Northern Ireland apart?

Eilis O'Hanlon

Wednesday, December 11

11.12

Should England be embarrassed by Brexit? How a national identity crisis became the subject of international ridicule

Jenny McCartney

Monday, November 4

04.11

Will Brexit tear Belfast apart? The unionist community in Northern Ireland resents the way Brexit is being used by republicans to chip away at their Britishness

Paul Embery

Wednesday, October 23

23.10

Don’t let Brexit become the next Troubles Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s taught me that tribal loyalties have a way of turning nasty

Jenny McCartney

Friday, October 11

11.10

Why is Stella Creasy shutting down debate? One person’s harassment is, it would appear, another person’s legitimate crusade

Paul Embery

Friday, September 13

13.09

‘Fake news’ is old hat in Northern Ireland The BBC's 'Spotlight on The Troubles' series shows that the decay of political language is not a new phenomenon

Douglas Murray