Fewer secrets: less harm - A poetic history of the Irish in Leeds
Ian Duhig on an anthology he co-edited inspired by Leeds Museums’ 19th-century Irish holdings
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Evolving Islands: Ireland & Britain - a special series from The Irish Times exploring the complex relationship between the two
‘This is for everyone’: Rory McIlroy transcends orange-green divide in all-island game of golf
Golf dominated everything in Northern Ireland this week following McIlroy’s Masters win
Irish and British futures are codependent and entangled
Worldview: Running through contemporary debates is a battle between those who say reconciliation should come before constitutional change and those who argue for the reverse
Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation
Support for Sinn Féin is growing in the North, but support for a united Ireland isn’t. This is not as strange as it might seem
Why does Northern Ireland lag the South on public health and education?
Rising infant mortality an indicator ‘society is going down’, says public health specialist
Failure to connect electricity systems on island of Ireland has led to higher prices and greater emissions
Given our dependence on electric power, delivery of modern interconnector should be faster than one built in wartime
Plans to restrict BBC Sounds outside UK delayed
BBC seeking to ensure radio stations can be found on other platforms ahead of shift
Stakeknife report finds ‘no deliberate attempt’ by MI5 to withhold material from Operation Kenova
Review conducted after hundreds of files not shared with Operation Kenova investigating team
Ireland’s rugby exiles in Britain: Meet the Jack Charlton-style granny hunters
Ireland is too small a rugby nation not to tap into the talent pool of its emigrant population across the Irish Sea
Latest controversy to engulf Stormont is over the definition of ‘controversial’
Current row is over Irish language signs at Grand Central Station - but brace for more of the same
Northern Ireland retailers bearing ‘a lot of pain’ due to red tape, says NI Chamber
The UK prime minister Keir Starmer will next month host EU leaders at a landmark post-Brexit summit
More Northern Ireland students likely to apply for college places in the Republic this year, says Minister
James Lawless says changes made to CAO qualifying conditions will make it easier for northern students to study in the South
‘A handful of hopefuls can create change’: George Mitchell passes on the torch to a new generation
Former senator addresses students at Queen’s University Belfast about a future of hope
Senator George Mitchell: Northern Ireland’s peace must evolve. And if it is here to stay it must be shared
'I am not talking here in riddles. I am talking of unionists and nationalists, North and South, learning to give each other’s traditions space and time in order that we can flourish side by side. No domination. No dynamite'
Omagh bombing inquiry: State reaches deal clearing way for information to be shared
Memorandum sets out arrangements for ‘lawful disclosure of material from government departments’
ESRI report highlights growing North-South prosperity gap
Republic’s economy ahead of Northern Ireland in nearly every metric
Workers in Republic pay twice as much tax as those in North but are still better off, says ESRI report
Trade between North and South has increased since Brexit
‘Worrying’ quality of life gaps growing every year between North and South, says report
Infant mortality is rising in Northern Ireland and life expectancy there is worse than in the Republic
New appeal made to find IRA victim 50 years on
Information sought on the location of remains of Seamus Maguire
Irish-America crucial in ‘great cause’ of Irish unity, Leo Varadkar tells US audience
Former taoiseach stresses importance of Irish-American voice in ‘political project of our generation’
Ireland and UK increasingly seen as global ‘safe zones’ for investors, Taoiseach says
Two governments provide stability that is appealing for investment, Micheál Martin says
UK has to pick a side between the US and the EU - and Northern Ireland is stuck in the middle
Rather than seeing a US trade deal as entrenching the sea border, some unionists hope Trump’s new world order might sweep the Windsor Framework away
Titanic Belfast lost 2,000 bookings in one phone call: how new Brexit visa rules are hitting Northern Ireland tourism
From this month, holiday visitors to UK from EU member states other than the Republic must apply for £16 visa
People will have 31-day window to pay bill for UK state pension buyback
Irish people who worked in the UK are entitled to purchase voluntary national insurance contributions to either secure or enhance a UK state pension
Paul Brady: ‘There’s a huge coterie of Irish nationalists who don’t want a United Ireland’
The singer has been reflecting on his life to compile The Archive, his new box set. It’s been a rich, rewarding six decades in music
Unionists and Sinn Féin have ‘common goal’ of making NI work, says Ulster Unionist leader
SF must make idea of Irish unity ‘look attractive to people in Dublin and Limerick and Galway’, says Mike Nesbitt
‘The new visa is going to put the kibosh on things’: Northern Ireland’s tourist industry braces for impact of travel changes
From April 9th, the introduction of a £16 tourist visa raises unique problems for the North, since nearly 70% of its visitors arrive in Dublin and travel across the Border
Nigel Farage gears up for Reform UK’s ‘big moment’ in May 1st elections
Council and mayoral votes and crucial Westminster byelection will give clearer picture of whether Farage’s party can meet the hype
Unionist politicians must stop yearning for a flawed past, or ‘one that never was’
Using statistics to defend the union will have little persuasive power
Boy’s letter about not being able to play outside after Bloody Sunday touched taoiseach, new State records show
Derry boy Cormac Quigley’s note arrived during some of the darkest days of the Troubles
US tariffs: For distillery north of the Border, the picture is further complicated by Brexit
‘You add tariffs on anything coming from the US whiskey industry, then that is a major issue,’ says Wild Atlantic Distillery cofounder
Fionnula Flanagan: I remember the ‘No Irish or dogs’ signs. I didn’t want to live in a country that took that attitude towards me
Put off London, the actor went instead to the US, where she spent 50 years as one of Ireland’s most prominent screen presences
John Hemingway obituary: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot
He was shot down twice in the space of eight days, but went on to outlive all his contemporaries
Joe Lynskey Disappeared case: ‘When he came out of the monastery he came out for the cause. And the cause executed him’
Maria Lynskey had the funeral arrangements in place for her uncle before her family’s hopes of finding his remains were dashed for the second time in a decade
Reforms that undermine Belfast Agreement will be ‘dangerous’, experts warn
Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new report says
How UK social welfare reforms hit Northern Ireland
About a quarter of adults of working age in Northern Ireland get disability payments
The big story from Northern Ireland no one is talking about
The latest bombshell population data heralds a shocking reversal of demographic fortunes
Would a united Ireland really say goodbye to the BBC?
No better example of the complex relationships not just between North and South but between Ireland and Britain than our intertwined media ecologies
The experience of Irish Britons: ‘If you’re English and Irish at the same time like I am, it’s a bit of a problem’
The Irish identity of people born in Britain, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, can be complex and personal...
Excitement, boredom, but most of all, duty - the reasons southern Protestants fought in World War II
With death of John Hemingway, Ian d’Alton examines motivations of ‘The Few’
Duo to be extradited to North in connection with murder of RUC man 50 years ago
High Court rejects argument that handover would amount to an abuse of process
At home the DUP spurns Irishness, but when abroad it embraces it
The party’s code-switching in the US recently plays to negative stereotypes of unionism as a shallow identity. But could it be a response to a deeper shift?
More Guinness diplomacy from Keir Starmer as he hosts Irish party in Number 10
Eclectic guest list included drag queen Blu Hydrangea, broadcaster Dermot O’Leary and Olympic swimming champion Daniel Wiffen
Four former British soldiers charged over Belfast shootings 50 years ago
One of the accused is charged with the murder of Patrick McVeigh at the height of the Troubles
State fails in appeal bid to block Senator’s claim over ‘secret’ Irish airspace policing deal with RAF
Independent Senator Gerard Craughwell claims in High Court case deal exists and should be disclosed to the Dáil
Last known Battle of Britain pilot, Irishman John Hemingway, dies aged 105
Born in 1919, the Dubliner flew Spitfires during the Battle of Britain
Border counties spend more than €1.6m on cleaning up illegal diesel sludge
Two local authorities obliged to undertake over 220 cleansing operations during last four years
Freddie Scappaticci’s final years in a sleepy Surrey town: Neighbours were ‘sickened’ when they found out who he really was
The man known as Stakeknife, a senior British army agent in the IRA, was hidden away in middle-class suburban comfrot in Guildford
Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man
Delving into her family history led author Ali Watkins to explore one of the least known and most effective gunrunning operations in contemporary American history, and the ways the Irish diaspora view Ireland
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster
St Patrick not ‘the sole preserve of Irish nationalism’, says Orange Order
Protestant organisation sends greeting card to Irish embassies to mark St Patrick’s Day
End of segregation in Northern Ireland is a long way off, report finds
More than two-thirds of parents in Northern Ireland want their children to be educated alongside those from the other tradition
‘Philomena’s Law’: Labour MP introduces Bill to end penalty on compensation from Irish mother and baby homes
Grandson of Irish immigrants wants to combat the ‘stigma and shame’ some survivors feel
North’s business leaders and politicians look to deepen ties with US during trade mission
Northern Ireland going for growth as it develops stronger links with North Carolina
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