Jim Allister’s big test: Can unionist firebrand move in from the margins?
Assembly elections will reveal if relentlessly negative messaging can be turned into votes
Tibb’s the Season – Frank McNally on the patron saint of things that never happen
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Ulster Tower centenary remembers the complicated history of the first World War
Memorial to the 2,000 men killed in one day was the first to be erected on the Western Front
Six-bed 18th-century manor on Wild Atlantic Way for €1.45m
Errislannan Manor in Clifden, Co Galway, is a hunting lodge sheltered by 3,000 trees on 220 acres
Orange Orders: ‘When you stop us parading you’re attacking who I am’
Quincey Dougan on identity and heritage and the deep history pervading south Armagh
Bertie Ahern: Dev was wrong not to lead the 1921 Treaty talks
The British team was skilled. It was not smart politics to leave our leading statesman at home
Fintan O’Toole: Partition squeezed out pluralism. We have to let it back in
The events of a century ago led to the creation of two sectarian states
Future Imperfect – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s 1950s vision of the year 2021
An Irishman’s Diary
Oscar Wilde, my grandfather, ‘talked himself into prison’
The only grandchild of Oscar Wilde believes he knows why the playwright lost his case
100 years ago today the partition of Ireland was made official
Ireland is still living with the consequences of the Government of Ireland Act
A century on: how partition divided Ireland and why it still matters
We are still living with the consequences of the Government of Ireland Act (1920)
Newton Emerson: The North’s approach to difficult statues is adding rather than removing
None of the city’s handful of landmark statues is now thought worth fighting over
Cormac Moore: A century of partition
The Act, brought in by David Lloyd George’s government in an attempt to address the Ulster question, caused great confusion and was widely condemned both north and south
Belfast on the brink in 1920
The summer of 1920 saw a period of intense political violence in the north against a background of a post-war economic slump
Derry Girls’ blackboard goes on display as a museum piece
‘Protestants keep toasters in cupboards’ exhibition challenges NI stereotypes
‘The Hist’: 250 years of self-indulgent theatrics and transformative debate
Trinity’s College Historical Society has had an impact on Irish life and world events
The more the British learn about Ireland’s loyalists, the less they like
The union has been preserved not out of love for Northern Ireland but by ambivalence
Unionists return to Stormont to protest abortion law changes
Activists gather outside Assembly as rival MLAs call symbolic sitting a meaningless stunt
Fintan O’Toole: For the first time since 1171, Ireland is more powerful than Britain
There is far too much at stake to take any pleasure in this bizarre political reversal
Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church
A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views
Unionists ‘could hold balance of power into perpetuity’ in all-Ireland parliament
Former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt says unionism will not disappear in united Ireland
India’s Amritsar massacre bore the ‘made in Ireland’ mark
The governor, Sir Michael O’Dwyer from Tipperary, approved of the mass killing 100 years ago
World’s oldest college debating society to celebrate 250th anniversary
Trinity College Dublin Historical Society to celebrate its gilded, and star-studded, history
How was the Irish Border drawn in the first place?
Three civil servants produced different options for temporary ‘exclusion zone’ in 1914
The history of the Irish Border: From Plantation to Brexit
With the threat of a hard border looming, we look at how Northern Ireland came to this
Home rule goes from British suspension to Sinn Féin disfavour
By 1918 the SF new breed are not interested in devolution or any variety of home rule
Twisty history: RTÉ is covering Election 1918 ‘as it happens’
It's the first time Edward Carson and Michael Collins will go head to head with Corrie
Fintan O’Toole: The 1918 election was an amazing moment for Ireland
In an act of peaceful secession, Irish people chose to be citizens, not subjects
Newton Emerson: What exactly is the DUP fighting for?
Is Arlene Foster seeking to keep NI as exclusively British for as long as she can?
Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis
For the newly-galvanised party, 1918 was characterised by protest, piety, propaganda, prison and ultimately political triumph
‘Timidly opening the doors’ : Winning the vote for women in 1918
The suffrage movement faced its strongest opposition in the Irish Parliamentary Party
The day the Home Rule movement died
A forgotten casualty of Germany’s ‘March Offensive’ was the Irish Parliamentary Party
The North and 1918
Political events set both Northern nationalists and unionists on a trajectory that was to last for many years to come
Unionism’s obsession with masculinity hurts its cause
Paisley and Trimble were different leaders but both projected conspicuously male models of authority
John Redmond’s spirit of pragmatic persuasion is in short supply
London Letter: Small but diverse group marks Irish politician’s centenary in Westminster
DUP deal with Conservatives will ‘end in tears’, Adams predicts
Sinn Féin leader says some progress made in talks to restore Northern Executive
Former Unionist politician says Donegal should leave ‘Southern Urekand’
John Taylor castigated ‘Irekabd’, ‘Irekand’ and ‘Southern Urekand’ for ‘scheming’ with the EU
Shadow of 1917 Irish Convention hangs over Brexit
Debates around free trade and customs barriers as key 100 years ago as now
The fate of southern unionists was sealed in 1917
They had no choice but to reach some accommodation with nationalist Ireland
Who was Willie Redmond and why is he fondly remembered at Messines?
‘He had had difficulty persuading the War Office to let him lead his men into battle, but was allowed to lead the third wave assault on Wijtschate’
1917: John Redmond’s annus horribilis
Personal tragedies and political disappointments followed in the Rising’s wake
Willie Redmond: an Irish patriot and a British soldier
Solitary grave in Flanders a testimony to contradictions in Irish nationalism in first World War
Victorian redbrick given 21st-century makeover
An extended semidetached house in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, with light-filled, modern interior for just over €1m
Mike Nesbitt takes electoral gamble in North election
Ulster Unionist leader will cast second preference vote for SDLP’s Seamus de Faoite
British Pathé brings colour to Irish revolution
Revolution in Colour deploys technique used for vaunted second World War in HD Colour
Former Minister calls for respect during commemorations to mark the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and Civil War
Martin Mansergh echoes President Michael D Higgins in arguing that no side had a monopoly of right in their actions
Gerry Adams has more in common with John Redmond than he might think
Redmond’s position was similar to that articulated recently by Gerry Adams on the difficulties Brexit causes in Northern Ireland.
Division must end to achieve 1916 vision, says Gerry Adams
Sinn Féin president marches in Easter Rising commemorative parade in west Belfast
Four unlikely leaders celebrated on Easter Rising banners
College Green display commemorates 1916 by honouring men who did not take part
GPO Proclamation hid 11 British army recruitment posters
Trinity College Dublin to display items that were preserved due to heat of GPO fires
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