Northern Ireland has changed – and unionism has been left behind. But if the party can’t dominate, it won’t participate What will a unionist never do? Bend the knee. What will …
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Northern Ireland has changed – and unionism has been left behind. But if the party can’t dominate, it won’t participate What will a unionist never do? Bend the knee. What will …
(The Guardian, May 8, 2022) The Irish taoiseach, Micheál Martin, put it politely. It would be “undemocratic” for the Democratic Unionist party to refuse to form an executive in Belfast after …
Susan McKay talks to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin about her career as a poet, translator and teacher as part of the 2022 Global Irish Festival https://youtu.be/nouEK-i_KA4
The Guardian The road I grew up on in Drumahoe, on the outskirts of Derry, has been on the news lately, and not in a way that makes me proud. Journalists …
In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic tale, the civilised Jekyll, fascinated by the duality of his personality, manages to embody his evil …
For young unionists, Irish unity is ‘just another issue’ alongside many others The artist Dermot Seymour once explained why his paintings often featured headless men: if you are a Protestant in …
Parties which claim to uphold human rights have abandoned women (Irish Times Oct 26, 2021.) It was quite the “manel” on display last week when the leaders of the North’s main Christian …
(The Guardian, 9/10/2021) A powerful new play has just opened at Belfast’s Lyric theatre. The Border Game, by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney, is a fractured love story and a sharp …
(Irish Times) The sole survivor of the the IRA’s Kingsmill massacre has accused the Irish Government of hypocrisy and of “speaking out of both sides of its mouth” over its attitude …
A campaign to stop Belfast’s first Irish-language preschool shows how dysfunctional unionist politics has become. (Susan McKay for The Guardian) The hard men of Ulster loyalism are adept at spotting Trojan horses. …