Why is the Italian right obsessed with Bobby Sands?
First-time visitors to the Bogside Pub in Florence might recognise some of the images on display
First-time visitors to the Bogside Pub in Florence might recognise some of the images on display
Forty years after Sands’s election as an MP and death by hunger strike, what is his legacy?
Is Brian Stanley’s tweet part of a concerted Sinn Féin effort to rewrite the Troubles?
When Troubles started in 1969, only Unionist Party had power in Northern Ireland
Twitter reunites phoneless Mayo men with their New York holiday photograph
Historian Marisa McGlinchey on death of Lyra McKee and state of dissident republicanism
Paramilitary organisations see opportunity in Brexit – the harder Brexit the better
Bishop ordered ban on paramilitary trappings which ended only with McGuinness’s own funeral
Mary Holland was at the funeral of an IRA man murdered by loyalist Michael Stone in Belfast’s Milltown cemetery when two British army corporals strayed into its path and were also murdered in one of the bloodiest weeks of the ‘Troubles’
‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach
Key players in protests or politics 50 years ago will lecture at Stranmillis University
A new documentary examines the savage 1988 killings that brought the North to the brink
‘To know Gerry Adams you have to understand the nationalist experience in the North’
Anthony McIntyre recalls the Sinn Féin leader’s time in the Provisional IRA
Some in SF say row is really about unionists needing to show respect to nationalists
Morrison complains to RTÉ over ‘water was too good for them’ reference to hunger strike
The British and Irish governments have a difficult decision to make
Mood downbeat as parties decide whether to return to formal negotiations
Key dates for ex-IRA commander, Sinn Féin leader and former deputy first minister
Key figures from both sides of the peace line have their say on the notion of Irish unity
Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listings
Hunger strikes ended 35 years ago today but legacy lives on in ‘twilight zone between history and memory’. Academics behind this Irish Times series reflect on lessons learned
Reflections on Border: ‘If a Berlin-type wall were to be erected, relations would suffer’
SF Minister says payments for quashed kidnap convictions will not affect relationships
The strikes filled column inches at home and abroad but their impact and legacy cannot be easily or neatly defined
In his prison writings Adams offered a subtle critique of the spiritual, sacrificial strand of republicanism which had dominated republican discourse for decades since 1916
Brighton bomber Patrick Magee wrote his PhD thesis while in jail on the portrayal of republicans in fiction. As a novel about the bombing is published, he explains his views
Cover of Budget 2016 document illustrates Government move to woo mothers
Martin Russell’s revitalised side bid to take a big scalp against a side currently in freefall
Mary Holland was at the funeral of an IRA man murdered by loyalist Michael Stone in Belfast’s Milltown cemetery when two British army corporals strayed into its path and were also murdered in one of the worst series of events during the Northern ‘Troubles’
The republican group’s policing system was inherently ill-equipped to deal with the rape of a 16-year-old girl such as Maíria Cahill
‘In the end Gerry Conlon won – the victory was his,’ his solicitor tells mourners
Formula needed to placate unionism without annoying republicans
Unionist parties failing to stand up against sectarian violence, Sinn Féin president says
Danny Morrison says he hasn’t felt so “despondent” since IRA broke its first ceasefire
Priest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home town
Sadness and sense of loss at Seamus Heaney’s death truly crossed the globe but it was deep too in Bellaghy
The west Belfast Feile, which has been running since the height of the Troubles 25 years ago, has served as a model for the East Belfast Arts Festival, now in its second year
Wetting the baby’s head was a city-wide activity
North’s Curriculum body says teaching notes for award-winning book for teenagers are balanced
Two senior republicans still in dispute over whether there was potential for a deal when just four of 10 hunger strikers had died
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices