Fintan O’Toole: All the main actors in the Troubles tell partial, distorted and deceitful story
The British, loyalists and Sinn Féin each have their reasons for distorted storytelling
Horror classics to screen at this year’s Cork Film Festival
Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael
More children killed in Troubles than first thought, says new book
Authors Joe Duffy and Freya McClements claim 186 children under 16 died in conflict
Academic says republicans responsible for 60% of Troubles deaths
Community could be seen as ‘oppressive minority’, according to QUB historian
‘Diamond standard’ Dr Maurice Hayes remembered at funeral
Late former senator ‘a giant who strode the stage of life in so many and varied roles’
David McKittrick: How Martin McGuinness left behind the grim rhetoric of war
‘Powell remembered seeing the two leaders of militant Irish republicanism playing with Tony Blair’s children and trying to ride Nicky Blair’s skateboard through the rose garden’
Friends in media, politics gather for James Downey funeral
Journalist decided ‘he could wait no longer for government to be formed’, mourners told
John Horgan: The defiant Indy mentality will live on
Tony O’Reilly’s role in the paper, which is moving online, was one of support for its journalists
Maggie Scull: Republicans and historians remain divided over hunger strikes
The strikes filled column inches at home and abroad but their impact and legacy cannot be easily or neatly defined
British and Irish governments attempt to breathe fresh life into Stormont
‘Sinn Féin must know that unionists will never fully return to the Assembly while even the faintest shadow of an IRA gunman remains’
Jonathan Bardon Q&A: ‘good history is not enough: the historian also has a duty to tell it well’
‘Read your first drafts out loud to yourself, as if you were giving a sermon – a great way to show up areas in need of improvement’
Noel Whelan: Amid forgiveness in Mullaghmore we should not forget the past
‘While some may breathlessly trumpet Gerry Adams’s magnanimity in shaking the prince’s hand, the real bravery for peace was on the British side of that encounter’
Sinn Féin’s problem is not so much with the past as with the truth
Opinion: A generation with no memory of the Troubles must be told what the IRA did
The Second Coming of Paisley. Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics, Richard Lawrence Jordan
In claiming Paisley’s extraordinary volte face was based in theology, Jordan shows a poor understanding of Northern politics and Irish history
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